Tess quotes from Touched by an Angel

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[parting advice for Monica's first experience in human form] Don't start eating everything you see. Now I spend my first assignment as a food tester for one of the Caesars. Look at me. It takes a century to take it off.

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People only carry on in the dark when they don't want you to see what they're doing.

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Well, we all have our little idiosyncrasies. You don't like water and I'm not much on patience.

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People are too busy to meet themselves anymore. Everybody's faxing and modeming and on-lining and inputting and downloading. You don't like it? Change the channel. Push the button: Escape. Delete. You know, you can say anything to anybody anywhere in the world in seconds. But it still takes as much time as it ever took to know a soul or mend a broken heart or give birth to a child. Even in this world of change, some things don't. And children like her get lost in the in-between.

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Honey, you are plunging into the lion's den. You're dealing with a lawyer.

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When are you going to learn to stop hearing and start listening, Miss Wings?

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Send him to his reward!

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The world is full of people who don't want to get involved. That's how trash like this can happen.

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God did give you the gift of leadership. But this this creature perverted it. He took your pain and loneliness and he taught you to control instead of lead. He stole your gift and he stole your life. That's what Satan does.

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War, famine, plagues have wiped out entire civilizations but love has never been wiped out.

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I could yell the words of God until the cows come home but you wouldn't hear. Not until you let go of your fear.

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There's nothing more dangerous than loving. Unless it's not loving. He didn't say it was gonna be easy. But He says it's surely gonna be worthwhile.

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God raised this balloon. And He's able to raise your standards... All you have to do is get in and hold on.

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Your problem is that you get too emotionally involved in your cases... Which is one of the things I love most about ya.

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Don't worry about you can't do it or why you can't do it, baby. God can use you in there. Don't escape from it. Deal with it.