Touched by an Angel Season 1 quotes

You're gonna take him up and FLY like 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.

Wayne

[Talking about Serena to Joey] She's been a lot better friend to you than I have. She never tried to change you.

Hey, Wayne, guess what?

Wayne

What?

You love me.

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.

[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

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

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.

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.

Sophie

You never know what direction it's coming from, sometimes from the underpass, sometimes from the grassy knoll, sometimes they just push you out the window.