Megan quotes from Touched by an Angel

Sanity's overrated.

[To Jack] I always knew you had a wife. I just never realized you were married.

Remember when ma decided to cook for Thanksgiving and she put cayenne pepper on the turkey instead of paprika? And she told us to be thankful we still have mouths left?

Are you hurt?

That depends. Are you calling an ambulance or a lawyer?

Monica

Why do you suppose people take pictures?

Well, deep down, I think it's our way on declaring war on death. You take a picture of something and if it goes away, you still have a piece of it.

Monica

It seems to me that it's better to have all of it for a while than a piece of it forever.

All this time I told myself we had something special. But tonight when he looked at me and walked up the stairs with her, I realized: "My God! I'm just the other woman." I'm his secret. He's been keeping me in a room I didn't even know I was in.

Monica

But you walked into that room all by yourself.

I did the one thing I swore I'd never do. It's just that... after a while, you spend enough nights alone, you go to too many other people's weddings and baby showers, you spend too many holidays at other people's houses and you want just a little piece of happiness for yourself. Just for a while, you know. Just so that I could say someday that somebody wanted me. That somebody thought I was special.

Monica

Megan, wanting to love someone and wanting to be loved in return, these things are good and right. But wanting them from someone else's husband is wrong.

He's not supposed to be married! He's supposed to be with me! God's made a mistake.

Monica

No, when things get this ugly and painful, God has nothing to do with them.

Well, then I wish He'd tell me what to do now.

Monica

I think He's just about to. [It starts to snow] Megan, when you cry, God cries with you. But He can't wipe away your tears unless you let Him.

The road I took yesterday. It wasn't an accident. [Monica shakes her head] And this place...?

Monica

This house was created for you, for this night, this moment. Megan, I'm an angel and this is your unexpected snow.

Well, I can't! I can't give him up and I won't! You go tell that to God. Why can't He just let me have this?

Monica

Because there's better love for you.

Where?

Monica

I don't know where. And I don't know when. The only thing I do know is that the kind of love worth waiting for, you won't have to lie for or steal or keep it hidden in a box to visit on weekends.

Well, it may not be a great love but it's my love.

Monica

No, it isn't. It belongs to Susanna.

Sam, say something, please.

Sam

I don't know what to say.

It's okay. Nobody ever does.

Sam, look, I appreciate everything you're trying to do but if you wanna do something for me, be my friend.

Sam

I'm not trying to do anything. And I am your friend. But a friend can't be there for you the way a husband can. And I will love you and I will care for you...

...'til death do we part.

Sam

That's the vow I wanna make.

Let me just ask you one thing. Why? Why did He do this to me? Why did I do to deserve this?

Monica

Nothing. Megan, you've done nothing. This is not a punishment. God hasn't done this to you. God didn't set this journey in motion. He's just as angry as you are that you have to walk this road. But He promises you this, Megan. He will walk this road with you and He will be there for you when you reach the end of it. God loves you. The love has always been there for you. All any of you needed was the courage to hold onto it.