Touched by an Angel · Season 1
[When Charles found out he gave the money to the wrong person, he visits Robin again]
Am I to assume you purchased these items with the money we gave you yesterday?
Yes. It was incredible! All my life, I'd wanted to spend an entire day in a shoe store and not even look at the prices.
Well.... I'm afraid you're going to have to give those back.
Yeah, I know. They make my calves look really fat.
How could one person buy so many shoes, so many UGLY shoes?
Probably because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no taste.
Tess, isn't it amazing the different ways people think of to protect their feet.
That's nothing. Look what they start thinking of when they start trying to protect their hearts.
Charles? Poor dear. I can't even see his heart from here.
Then you just gotta get closer.
[Trying to threaten Robin's ex-boyfriend]
You know, bookmaking is illegal.
So's putting jerks in comas.
Monica (beating Smokey at pool): Okey-dokey, Smokey. Four ball, side pocket. And the six ball left corner, not forgetting my favorite, number seven, in that corner.
(She makes the shot)
Whoa!
One and three, into the corner, into the two, into the five, side pocket, kissing the eight.
What are you, delusional? The cue ball's blocked by the eight!
(She makes the shot)
Where did you ever learn to play like that?
Well, I once worked in a pool hall as a sort of security guard.
When are you going to learn to stop hearing and start listening, Miss Wings?
[At a disco, watching people dance]
[Cringing] I can't help but wonder which one of those kids I'm gonna see later in traction.
They're expressing themselves, Tess.
Whatever happened to the gavotte? And the minuet, you remember the minuet? 1-2-3, 1-2-3, bow and curtsey. Kept the hormones in a state of perpetual anticipation. That's my kind of thing. (Looks at Charles' dancing) 'Course, in his case, maybe he oughta do a little less anticipating and a little more expressing.
Nothing's really wrong with the man's heart. Except he's terrified of letting it out again.
Again?
Well, what if you ran away from home and nobody noticed?
What if you gave away your heart and nobody cared?
All your life, you've been afraid of life. And if you haven't convinced yourself that you were dying then you'd decide you're too fat or too short or too anything as long as it could convince you to hide. But God made you, Charles, and He knew what He was doing. You're not too anything, except almost too late.
She's late.
There's no such thing as late. Destiny picks its own time.
What do I do when it happens, Tess?
Destiny doesn't happen. It arrives. And when it does, you either batten down the hatches and wait 'til it blows over or you swing open the gates and invite it in to supper.
I wish it had a way of showing itself so she'd know what she's dealing with.
[Slightly exasperated] Then it wouldn't be destiny.
And I wouldn't have a job?
You go, girl! Now you're getting it. [A wind blows] Hark.
Hark?
[Shrugs] I miss the old days.
[After Susanna and Megan nearly collide their cars into each other]
Are you hurt?
That depends. Are you calling an ambulance or a lawyer?
[Tess and Adam are looking at a turkey that Tess wants Adam to handle since he's the Angel of Death]
Send him to his reward!
Sanity's overrated.
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.
It seems to me that it's better to have all of it for a while than a piece of it forever.
This is what you call an unexpected snow. One moment, the sky is clear and the next moment, it's falling down. Now you can run inside and hide or you can become part of it and let it change you.
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