[Zefram Cochrane's disgusted at learning the Companion has feelings for him]
There's nothing disgusting about it. It's just another life form, that's all. You get used to those things.
You're as bad as it is.
Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical. Your relationship with the Companion has for one hundred and fifty years been emotionally satisfying, eminently practical, and totally harmless. It may indeed have been quite beneficial.
Is this what the future holds? Men who have no notion of decency or morality? Maybe I'm a hundred and fifty years out of style, but I'm not going to be fodder for any inhuman monster. [leaves]
Fascinating. A totally parochial attitude.
Doctor, Doctor...
Right here, Miss Hedford.
[speaking weakly from her fever] I heard. He was loved. And he resents it.
You just rest.
I've always been good at my job. But I've never been loved. Never. What sort of a life is that? Never being loved. Never... to have shown love. And he runs away from love. [breaks down sobbing]
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