Xena: Warrior Princess (TV Series)

The Bitter Suite (1998)

Renée O'Connor: Gabrielle

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

  Gabrielle : Is that supposed to make me feel better?

• Gabrielle : [after Xena abducted her from the Amazon village, dragged her away by rope on horseback and tried throwing her over a waterfall]  *I HATE YOU!*

  [she charges towards Xena and they both fall off the cliff towards the waterfall] 

• Gabrielle : [looking around Illusia]  The Elysian Fields... only heroes wind up here.

  [pause] 

  Gabrielle : Dead heroes.

  [realizing her nakedness] 

  Gabrielle : Dead naked heroes.