Wisdom
When John was younger he would have argued. He would have done his best to try and change Elizabeth's mind, to point out the flaws in her position and convince her to acknowledge his point.
But all that was when he was younger; John is no longer that foolish.
All he says is: "Yes, dear."
Such A Guy
Elizabeth wears a necklace, silver and gleaming, that hangs in a perfect V from her neck and shimmers in the light as he watches it.
"I like your necklace," John tells her, and she laughs because she knows the secret.
When a guy looks at a woman's necklace, it's not her necklace he's looking at.
Alien
She freely mouths any words that make them accept her, for they are the only ones who can fight the Wraith, who won't turn the Athosians into slaves. Teyla will do anything, even sell out her beliefs, to protect her people.
The sad thing is that the Atlanteans truly believe she thinks as they do.
Grief
John storms around his quarters, throwing things on the floor, smashing lamps, overturning the bed, as if the messier his room is the less his heart will feel. He rages, rages, rages.
Elizabeth finds him in the wreckage and says nothing, only takes him in her arms.
Where, finally, he weeps and is human again.
Me Against the World (post-Siege)
Ford hates the Atlanteans. How could they give up on him now? Why did they refuse to accept this wonderful thing that's happening to him? He hates them, with all the strength of one who loves.
Because he loves them, misses them, longs for them.
But mostly he hates them. Oh how he hates them.
Antidepressant
"Can't you summon up a little bit of optimism?" John demanded of McKay, exasperated. "I mean, I'm not asking for a huge change here. Even just a 'we're gonna get horribly and terribly injured' instead of a 'we're all gonna die'."
McKay gave him a dark look.
"What? It's depressing, the way you go on."