Gabrielle quotes from Xena: Warrior Princess

Gabrielle

Did you really like my play?

Xena

It was alright. Maybe it could have done with a few more fight scenes.

Gabrielle

Everyone's a critic.

Xena

"What is that?" … [pulls a telescope out of Argo's bag and proceeds to look through it the wrong way]

Gabrielle

"Xena, give me that … huh, I don't see anything." … [pulls the telescope away to reveal a dark ring around her eye]

Xena

"My mistake."

Gabrielle

You know, how did you fall for my fish guts gag?

Xena

I don't know.

Gabrielle

You knew that I would go crazy waiting for you to get even. Xena, didn't see it coming. [tries to take a drink out of a cup, which promptly spills all over her]

Xena

Nor that. Now, we're even.

Xena

"Here, give me that (taking the cup away from Gabrielle). I want you to close your eyes."

Gabrielle

"No."

Xena

"Trust me, please."

Gabrielle

"No."

Xena

"Close your eyes."(places a scroll in Gabrielle's lap)

Gabrielle

"What is this?"

Xena

"Open it. I had Sappho jot something down for you."

Gabrielle

"A poem? Sappho wrote a poem for me. I don't believe it. Xena, you had this planned all along, didn't you? (Gabrielle reads the poem) ... There's a moment when I look at you And no speech is left in me My tongue breaks Then fire races under my skin and I tremble And grow pale for I am dying of such love Or so it seems to me.'"

Gabrielle

"It's beautiful. This is the best birthday present I have ever had."

Xena

'Course, it ain't over yet. [puts the helmet on and the girls fly off into the sunset together] Happy birthday, Gabrielle!

Nice driving, dear. Oh, that was the most fabulous vacation since our honeymoon, and I thought that nothing could top that. Wasn't it fascinating how being back in Greece brought back our lives as Xena and Gabrielle?

Yeah, except I shouldn't have had those last two goat cheese milkshakes.

Is my little Warrior Princess' tummy still bothering him?

Xena

I mean, Gabrielle, what are we gonna do? Wander around Greece our whole lives looking for trouble? Why don't we go away? Far away? What do ya say?

Gabrielle

I can't believe you're awake, much less listening to me.

Xena

Let's go south to the land of the Pharaohs. I hear they're in need of a girl with a chakram.

Xena

If I only have thirty seconds to live.

Gabrielle

We're going to be together … for eternity.

Gabrielle

You brought out the best in me.

Xena

Gabrielle, this is how I want to live them, looking into your eyes.

Gabrielle

It's too quiet out here.

Xena

Gabrielle, what would you do? Listen not just to the sounds, but what's behind the sounds. Always remember that I love you.

I deserve to die with the dignity of a warrior.

Gabrielle

Dignity, huh? Like you showed my friend? [throws the chakram at him which ricochets off his head and a few boulders, and then returns to her waiting hand]

Xena

No, Gabrielle.

Gabrielle

Xena.

Xena

No.

Gabrielle

Xena, the sun is setting. I have to bring you back to life.

Xena

No, not if it means condemning the souls of the forty thousand who burned at Higuchi.

Gabrielle

The souls are free.

Xena

They're free from Yodoshi's grasp. Akemi didn't want to tell me this in case I wouldn't come back to help … but for those souls to be released into a state of grace, they must be avenged. I must stay dead.

Gabrielle

But if I bring you back to life...

Xena

...The souls will be lost forever.

Gabrielle

Xena, that is not right. I don't care. You're all that matters to me.

Xena

Don't you know how much I want to let you do this? But if there's a reason for our travels together, it's because I had to learn from you, enough to know the final, the good, the right thing to do. I can't come back. I can't.

Gabrielle

I love you, Xena. How am I supposed to go on without you?

Xena

I'll always be with you, Gabrielle. Always.

Gabrielle

[sailing back across the sea, holding Xena's ashes close] A life of journeying has brought you to the farthest lands, to the very edge of the Earth.

Xena

[appearing beside her friend] And to the place where I'll always remain - your heart.

Xena

So where to now?

Gabrielle

I think we should go south to the land of the Pharaohs. I hear they need a girl with a chakram.

Xena

Where you go … I'm at your side.

Gabrielle

I knew you'd say that.