Zack quotes from Touched by an Angel

[About his experiences as a Marine] Nothing that happens in basic training prepares you for what war is really like, you know. We saw some bad stuff, really bad stuff. One day, you're eating sand and breathing gas and watching yourself kill people you never even met. And then the next day, you're sitting at home reading about yourself in Time magazine eating a Big Mac. It's too weird.

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.

Pete

You're dreaming the wrong kind of dreams, man.

What's that supposed to mean?

Pete

You can't waste your time dreaming about the past. You gotta stick to dreaming about the future.

But being a Marine was the one thing I did best. I belonged to something. That's who I was.

Pete

And what are you now?

I don't know.

Pete

I know. You're a guy who can't even think about next week because you're busy just trying to get through today. But thinking like that, that's what's gonna keep you on the streets. You gotta have a dream bigger than where you're gonna sleep tonight.

Monica

Shouldn't we be out looking for trouble?

Don't worry. It'll find us.

I was in a hospital bed for a month. I was at home recuperating for five. And at first, I used the pills just to kill the physical pain. But as it got closer to me getting back to my job, I used them to kill the fear, d'you understand? Because the only thing I thought about was that bullet coming at me and the only thing that makes it disappear are the pills.

Monica

But now there's hardly anything left but the pills. Or anyone. You've pushed away everyone you love to protect a secret that you hate.

Monica

This bullet ripped through your body and your body survived. But your spirit is still bleeding. And that's because you weren't wearing your armor. There's only one thing in this world that's truly bulletproof and that's faith. Not faith in a gun that shoots or a radio that works or even faith in your own cop's instinct but the faith that you wrap yourself in every day of your life. The faith that no matter what happens, you won't lose God's love and all the bullets in the world can't pierce it and all the pills in the world can't replace it.

I'm really scared. I'm scared to live like this. I can't do that.

Monica

But God loves you, Zack. And with God on your side, what is there to fear? Nothing.