- Penelope: There's so much I do not know.
- Odysseus: You do not want to know.
- Penelope: I need to understand.
- Odysseus: You cannot understand. I cannot understand.
- Penelope: We will. Your past will be my past. And mine yours.
- Odysseus: Better to forget.
- Penelope: We will remember. And we will forget together. And then we'll live. We'll grow old... Friends again. Together.
- Penelope: You have lost us our son.
- Odysseus: When he finds out who he is, he will return.
- Penelope: [angrily] So wise! How can you bear to see him go? So much blood...
- Odysseus: Yes.
- Penelope: So many years. Why?
- Odysseus: Would you still love the man I had become? I couldn't return. Forgive me. Forgive me.