Laris quotes from Star Trek: Picard

Laris

[To Picard] There you are. I've been looking everywhere for you with a cup of what is now, definitely, Earl Grey, cold.

Laris

Bad dreams?

Jean-Luc Picard

The dreams are lovely. It's the waking up that I'm beginning to resent.

Jean-Luc Picard

The daughter of the man whose death I have been mourning for two decades comes to me for help and assistance. And then she is assassinated in front of my eyes by a Romulan death squad who will then go and try and find and destroy her twin sister. And you want me to sit here worrying what to do about the spittlebugs on the pinots?

Laris

I want you not to die. No one but the Tal Shiar could ever protect you against the Tal Shiar.

She's not wrong. You can't go without us.

Laris

Idiot! He cannot go at all. He's only safe here.

Jean-Luc Picard

Seize today for we know nothing of tomorrow.

Laris

Today is glorious. And none of our tomorrows are guaranteed.

Laris

When I first came to work here, I saw you as a man who chose the stars. And after all this time, I've come to wonder, have you been seeking or running? Am I being too personal?

Jean-Luc Picard

No. Please, go on.

Laris

Why have you chosen to be alone?

Jean-Luc Picard

I'm hardly alone.

Laris

You know what I mean.

Jean-Luc Picard

As you say, I've spent my life in the stars.

Laris

And is that what you really want? All you really want?

Jean-Luc Picard

The part of me that really wants is the part that has to wait in line.

Laris

Behind what?

Jean-Luc Picard

Duty, I suppose. The need to keep on moving.