Xena quotes from Xena: Warrior Princess

Looking for the man of your dreams?

Xena

Yep.:[Punches him in the stomach] You're not him.

Xena

Hey, it's all right.

Thank you - Xena?

Xena

Hermia?

The Gods, it must be 10 years since I saw you last!

Xena

Come over here. What are you doing here? Where's your family?

Persix and Eteocles inhabit the other side, thanks to that murdering tyrant, Xeres. And now he's thrown Flora in his dungeon!

Xena

Flora? Little Flora? She's in prison?

She's not little anymore. She's all grown up and madly in love with one of the Black Wolves.

Gabrielle

Do you want to go back for the horse? It's bound to be a collectors' item?

Xena

Only if you're gonna pull it.

Gabrielle

Nah.

Gabrielle

You know Helen?

Xena

We met a long time ago in Sparta. Before the war.

Xena

How long would you be gone?

Gabrielle

Oh, maybe four or five years, so... Maybe a little less if I studied real hard. You'd hardly notice I was missing.

Xena

Even if I had an army around me, I'd still notice you were missing.

Gabrielle

You can't sweet-talk information out of me - wrong target.

Oh, I don't know. Some people consider me the king of sweet-talk.

Gabrielle

Well, hand over the crown, 'cause you just met your match. When I was five, I talked my parents into giving me my own pony.

When I was fifteen, I talked a warlord into giving me his army.

Gabrielle

I once talked a Cyclops out of his dinner. And I was the dinner.

I talked Xena into marrying me.

Xena

[far from both of them] Gabrielle, why don't you walk up here with me?

Gabrielle

You can keep your crown.

Gabrielle

So, what's this Petracles like?

Xena

He's a warlord. He's an ambitious, ruthless, dominating, conniving lair. He'll say anything he can to get a woman to fall for him, and then once he has her, he uses her.

Gabrielle

So you've met.

Xena

We were to be married.

Xena

No one... My horse threw me and I broke my little neck.

Oh, I love that. You didn't even get to go out like a hero.

Xena

Tell me truth, Marcus. You were put with the wicked when you died, didn't you?

Marcus

Well, like your friend says, hard to make up for a lifetime of evil with single good deed in the end.

Xena

So if we succeed in putting things right, you will spend the rest of eternity in Tartarus with the very people you are about to betray. Why are you doing this, Marcus?

Marcus

Xena, I died doing a selfless act. You taught me how sweet that could be. I knew you'd do the same thing if you were in my place.

Marcus

What? (Xena staring at him)

Xena

You lost some weight.

Marcus

It gets hot down here.

Marcus

I want to be awake for every moment of life I have left to me. You know you don't realize the kinds of things you take for granted until you don't have them anymore. Like the evening air. It just settles on you like a cool blanket. And the sky. There's nothing like it on the other side. You know what I missed the most? (kisses her hand)

Xena

Ahh... Would that be me?

Marcus

Yes, that would be you. There is something I wanted to say to you.... My death was not your fault. Things had to play out the way they did.

Xena

Sometimes, I think if I had said things a little differently, then maybe you'd have come around before it was too late.

Marcus

No. Xena,it was a miracle you got to me at all.See, I was convinced I could never change. But your words finally found their way to my heart.You did everything right...Don't be so hard on yourself. And, don't give up on love...

Xena

You heard those thoughts, too?... It hurt too much I guess. I started wondering if it was ever worth it to care that much.

Marcus

Oh, but it is. One thing that I've learned, is that love is the strongest power in the universe. Stronger than evil... it's even stonger than death. My feelings for you were the only thing that kept me going down there in Tartarus. It was like I was carrying my own Elysian fields around inside of me.

Xena

There is something I've been wanting to say to you, too.

Marcus

What?

Xena

I love you. (they kiss)

Marcus

This helmet (Hades') kept Atyminius mortal. He could still appear in the flesh, but wearing it from time to time kept him alive.

Xena

What's your point?

Marcus

If it worked for him it could work for me... We could live our lives together. Without the helmet, the wicked don't have power over Hades... It's what I want, but that's the problem, isn't it?

Xena

What do you mean?

Marcus

You taught me that life and death are not about what I want. It's about what's right...

Wait a second.... I know this guy (Marcus)... he's been dead a while.

Xena

Well, he's not dead anymore.

I don't believe this... There are no rules anymore.All right, that is it. I am drawing the line right here, somebody has to. So, I'm not taking either of you across unless you give me a gold coin. Now there will be no exceptions, no bargains, no compromises and absolutely no deals.

Did you find the helmet?...

Xena

I hid it... If you want to get it back, you will have to put Marcus among the good. If I don't tell you what I did with it, you may never get it back.

Can't do that... It's impossible.

Xena

Don't give me that.... You're a god.

Every man and woman can be judged only once when they die. Not even I can change that.

Xena

When they die? All I'm asking is that you give Marcus a hearing when he dies. You gave his life for 48 hours, remember? He'll die again soon. He deserves another judgement.... I don't want to talk about what he has done. I wanna talk about what's in his heart... Marcus.

Marcus

Xena... Let's get it over with. (While they kiss, Xena stabs him in the heart)

Xena

He could have kept the helmet and live out his life. You know that... You see everything. He was tempted, but in the end he did the right thing. Look into his heart...