- Xander Duvall: Do you have any idea how many people will die so that you can work on your daddy issues, Cordelia?
- Cordelia Fried: You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
- Tierney: You need to give me the weapon so I can destroy the Ancients before they destroy us.
- Xander Duvall: I'm not gonna do that.
- Tierney: Isn't it obvious that I need to be the one to do this?
- Xander Duvall: Don't be naive. We might not even have to use it against the Ancients if Jax is successful.
- Tierney: Now who's being naive? You think Jax can save us?
- Professor Osborn: You not only betrayed me, you betrayed the entire Confederacy.
- Meredith: And why not?
- Jacqueline 'Jax' Zhou: I thought I could change the worlds. I was wrong.
- Xander Duvall: You weren't wrong, Jax.
- Jacqueline 'Jax' Zhou: Tell that to Matta. Tell that to Aleka. They're both dead because I foolishly believed humanity could change after millennia of brutal wars and conflict.
- Ralen: Like Matta, Jax did what she had to do. She would want you to know that.
- Xander Duvall: I understand, Ralen. That it doesn't mean that I have to like it.
- Xander Duvall: I've followed orders for almost all of my life. I suppose maybe now it's time for me to find out what life is like with no one to follow except myself.