Xena: Warrior Princess (TV Series)

The Bitter Suite (1998)

Lucy Lawless: Xena

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Quotes 

• Xena : My heart is hurting beyond words. The pain is tearing up my soul. These days have seen my spirit die, my life propelled out of control.

  Xena : My wounds lie naked to the world, my depth of suffering exposed. This damaged past can never heal until this nightmare book is closed.

  Gabrielle : My heart is hurting beyond words. The pain is tearing up my soul. Please tell me, how can I retrieve the life that all this sadness stole?

• Xena : [sings]  I never dreamed that we'd be distanced by our hate, that all the trust we had would go...

  Gabrielle : [sings]  How could I hate you?

  Xena : [sings]  How could it come to pass, this awful twist of fate?

  Gabrielle : [sings]  How could I hurt you?

  Xena : [sings]  This madness can't be so!

  Gabrielle : [sings]  I can't believe it...

  Xena : [sings]  I never dreamed that any barriers could rise,

  Gabrielle : [sings]  Or that I'd ever see the stranger in your eyes!

  Xena : [sings]  Our hearts were hurting both the same...

  Gabrielle : [sings]  The hurt was tearing up our souls!

  Xena : [sings]  The fury in us made us blind...

  Gabrielle : [sings]  We could not see beyond the pain!

  Xena : [sings]  If we can turn again to love...

  Gabrielle : [sings]  If we can heal these open wounds!

  Xena : [sings]  We'll leave this hatred far behind,

  Gabrielle : [sings]  So not a trace of hate remains!

  Xena , Gabrielle : [singing]  We'll overcome our damaged past, and we'll grow stronger side by side to stand together through the storm. We're safe 'cause love will be our guide!

• Gabrielle : What's causing that?

  Xena : We are. Or I should say, you are.

  Gabrielle : There you go again. You're always blaming me for everything!

  [echoes increase] 

  Gabrielle : Xena, why is it never your fault?

  Xena : It's the past! Each time we accuse each other about the past, the echoes start and we can't hear one another!

  Gabrielle : How do we stop it?

  Xena : Tell me how you feel! Right now, nothing about the past! Right now!

• Xena : [Xena sees Ares sitting on the throne; Xena talks to him]  Ares... I thought as much, but why the big production number? What's the point?

  Ares : [begins singing]  You are the most divine delicious warrior. / A man can't help saluting your return. / And if you start my heart it's just the way you slash and burn./ Bewitching woman straining at the armor plates. / You singe me with the ardor you inflame./ And in my carnal heart there's not a solid thread of shame.

  [cuts Xena's shoulder straps, causing her dress to fall to the ground around her ankles, leaving her completely naked in front of Ares and his soldiers; Xena glares at him in disbelief and defiance] 

• Xena : I didn't kill you, I killed an illusion!

  Gabrielle : Is that supposed to make me feel better?

• Xena : [singing to Gabrielle]  Forgive me and you'll discover too, that the love of your love is you...