Tessa Noël quotes from Highlander: The Series

Tessa

I'm going to think about both of you for a long time.

Tessa

Bad money put to good use.

Tessa

I stay with you because I want to! I won't run. I'm not that "little woman", and I'll never be barefoot and pregnant! We all have things to face. This is mine. I have to see it through.

He's gonna be ok?

Tessa

I don't know.

Tessa

I am going to miss you, Melinda, very very much. I'll always remember you.

Promise?

Tessa

You see, I am going to save you right here. (in her heart)

Tessa Noël

I just keep seeing him in front of me as I ... (ran him over with a car)

Duncan

You did what you had to.

Tessa

I thought ridding the world of evil would feel better than this.

Duncan

I know... I know.

Richie

Whoa! Damn, check me out, I am one sharp dude!

Tessa Noël

Even if you do say so yourself.

Richie

Hey, Tess, I'm just callin em as I see em.

Duncan MacLeod

Tessa, you're stronger than she was. If something happened to me, you'd be fine.

Tessa

You only think so because it suits you.

Tessa

Duncan, when the time comes, if you ever have to leave me, (Duncan groans) I won't be like Ann, I'll leave you first.

Duncan

You do that!

Tessa

Yeah?

Duncan

Yeah! And I'll follow you, wherever you go, for as long as you live.

Tessa

Mmmm... Then maybe, just maybe, I won't leave.

Duncan

It's a good job, huh?

Tessa Noël

Great job.

Duncan

Great. I like being kept.

Tessa

Kept?

Duncan

Yeah, I mean, hang out on the barge, catch up on my reading, while you bring home the bacon.

Tessa

Barge, what barge?

Duncan

Oh I forgot to tell you about the barge. No self-respecting museum curator would live anywhere else.

Tessa

So I slave away all day while you sunbathe on a barge. Is that it?

Duncan

Yeah, but just think of how ... rested I'll be. He he he...

Tessa Noël

Do you still love her?

Duncan

No.

Tessa

That's all that needs to be said. She's your friend, and she's been hurt. You'll help her. I'd expect you to do no less.

You'd think I'd learn how to handle this, wouldn't you. The strange thing is, every time it happens I tell myself I won't go through it again. I swear to myself I won't fall in love with a mortal. As if love were something you had any control over. You and Mac have something good. I envy you.

Tessa

Grace, about you and Mac...

We had a moment, that was all. Though I wanted it to be more. Please don't hold it against me.

Tessa

It's funny, but I don't. It would take me several lifetimes to find out everything in Duncan's past. I know there have been others. But I never thought I would meet one of them. And here you are.

Tessa Noël

You don't look like someone who would worry much about forgiveness.

Richie

Tess, you do know that they all carry big swords with them. Just a thought.

Amanda

You've always had a taste for beautiful and spirited women, Duncan.

Tessa

And modest. Don't forget modest.

Duncan MacLeod

Time to go. It's been thrilling.

Amanda

It's been 65 years. A girl might think you're trying to avoid her.

Duncan

Now how could you think that? Goodbye, Amanda.

Tessa

After all she's done to you, why do you care whether she's happy or not?

Duncan

I don't know, Tessa. She made me laugh when there weren't too many things to laugh about. Maybe that doesn't seem important, but those are the things I remember of her.

Tessa

She makes me feel like I have to compete with her. Maybe if I'd been a lady pirate or something....

Duncan

whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Richie, give us a moment, would you?

Richie

I was just leaving. [He leaves]

Duncan

Hey, listen to me young lady, she's no competition. Hmmm?