- Gabrielle: You've changed, Xena. Like this valley. Once it was a place full of death and violence. But now it's full of beauty and life. The same kind of change has happened to you.
- Xena: You'll be dead in thirty seconds. But know this: you won't be the last. Tell Hades to prepare himself. A new Xena is born tonight, with a new purpose in life: death.
- Xena: Oh, that's right. You're fated to rule the world. Do you really believe that?
- Julius Caesar: Of course. Each event in our life is part of a great plan. There are no accidents. Only destiny.
- Xena: And who shapes this destiny - the gods?
- Julius Caesar: Perhaps. Or it's the blood in our veins, our souls, our desires, our will. They're all in it, together, weaving a tapestry we call 'destiny'.
- Xena: Well, I can tell you one thing about your destiny: you're fated to have dinner in my cabin tonight.