Monica quotes from Touched by an Angel

Monica

Joey's my friend.

Wayne

Joey's everybody's friend. Trouble is he's nobody's responsibility except mine.

Monica

Responsibility is a privilege. You've been entrusted with a beautiful soul who loves you, who's loyal to you, who'll never hurt you. Why won't you love Joey?

Wayne

You're talking to the wrong man. I've got no faith left.

Monica

You help Joey find his and I promise you you'll find yours.

Monica

So am I going to work in a shelter or counsel homeless people?

Tess

None of the above.

Monica

Then how am I supposed to help?

Tess

Well, baby, the only way to share this man's pain is to share his pain.

Pete

My lucky day. In a manner of speaking.

Monica

Are they going to fit?

Pete

Size 10. Close enough.

Monica

He's going to be fine. He's got a job, he's got a good head on his shoulders, he's got a plan to move on. I think he's going to make it.

Tess

Is that Monica the angel saying that? Or is that Monica I'm-cold-I'm-hungry-give-me-back-my-coat saying that?

Monica

What did I do wrong?

Tess

You took the easy way out. Just like everybody takes the easy way out. You found a reason not to get involved... This man, Pete, he's a fighter. But he's been hit too many times. One blow after another, too hard and too fast and the next blow could put him down and keep him down. And pride is not gonna help that. Not his and not yours.

Sophie

You know what the temperature is?

Monica

No.

Sophie

43 degrees. If you don't know how cold it is, you don't know how cold to be,

Sophie

I recognize everyone here. They're regulars. We're like one big family.

Monica

A big family where no one speaks to each other.

Sounds like my family.

Tess

What'd you ask Him for just now? Did you ask Him for food? Did you ask Him to make you warmer?

Monica

(depressed) I asked to be remembered. I needed to know that I still mattered..

Monica

(crying) I don't know why these things have happened to you but it's not because of anything you've done. And I have to confess that... You see, there was somewhere deep inside my heart that I thought maybe you... maybe you had done something to get here. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. It matters.

Pete

(hesitating) I forgive you. [Monica changes back into her angelic form] My God....

Monica

God loves you, Peter Jacob Taylor. I have failed you but He will not. He wants you to know that He is going to take you and Julie all the way to Colorado. He will walk with you all the way. But it's up to you to take the first step.

Tess

Did you ever hear the story about the man who was afraid of the lions? Well, he was so scared he ran and he ran and he ran and he kept looking behind to see if a lion was catching up to him. And he looked over his shoulder so much, he didn't see where he was going. And one day, guess what he ran smack dab into?

Monica

A lion.

Tess

Any boy that studies that much is looking for answers that he cannot find in a book.

Monica

So quiet and well-behaved. But there's something else too. A sadness.

Tess

He's so caught up in what his father wants him to be that he hasn't had to time to find out who he really is.

Monica

His father is so proud of him.

Tess

Honey, there is nothing more dangerous than a man taking pride in the wrong thing.

Tess

Now don't you go getting all emotional on me. You can't go around crying over every job.

Monica

[Taking tissues with a broken voice] You're a fine one to talk.

Tess

Save one for me.

Monica

[showing Tess an artichoke] I bought it in a market down there in the street and the little man said that it has a heart inside that is so fragile and so delicious, it's worth all the trouble to get to it.

Tess

What have I told you about taking human form and then starting on the food?

Let me guess. You've had some sort of angel experience.

Monica

Well, I am an angel experience.

Monica. Just when things start getting predictable, voila.

Monica

Voila? That's all you learned after a century in France?

Well, that and a glass of red wine a day keeps the Angel of Death away. For a while.

Monica

Andy wrote something on the back of his donor card. "Take what you need and carry on. I know I plan to." They say he was a wonderful person. Do you ever wonder why some people must die so that others can live? Or why enemies live and innocent die?

All the time.

Monica

Perhaps it's because we're not supposed to know.

Never a good reason for death.

Monica

You don't know that until you die. All I'm saying is how can you judge something fairly when you don't even know what the rules are? You can't play God, Joe, because you aren't God.