ROMANA: Six moons influencing the tides. Two of them orbit in a retrograde motion to the other four.

LEELA: Retrograde...?

ROMANA: Well, they move in the opposite direction.

LEELA: They circle all around, like enemies eyeing each other.

ROMANA: (Chuckles) You could say that.

LEELA: My heart, then, has sympathies with the sea. Roused, and calm, and stirred up by these different bodies whirling around me, distant and removed, locked in wary conflict, but never touching. I can only look on, tugged about by their movements.

ROMANA: You have a poetic wisdom, Leela. (Chuckles) I think I would describe the political machinations of the Capitol in rather coarser language.