Touched by an Angel (TV Series)

The Southbound Bus (1994)

Roma Downey: Monica

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• Monica : [uf humans]  How do they do it, Tess? They get up every morning and start all over again. Takes a lot of courage to do that. And they don't even know what we know.

  Tess : God help 'em.

• Monica : [getting off the bus, sees an angry Tess]  Now, before you say anything...

  Tess : Don't tell me what to say or when, Miss Wings. I want to know what you're doin' here!

  Monica : Well, I just thought...

  Tess : That's where you made your first mistake. Did I tell you to think north? No, I distinctly remember telling you to get on the bus and go north. GO north. Now, you get your little angel butt back to the city, and take care of business.

  Monica : But I am. I'm helping David.

  Tess : You were told to stay close to David. That's what he needs

  Monica : What David needs is his mother, and all of a sudden my instincts were kicking in, and...

  Tess : Wait just a minute. Let me see if I understand you correctly. You want me to go back to the Creator of the Universe, the Alpha, the Omega, the Great I Am and explain that the words of the Almighty were disobeyed because Monica's instincts kicked in?

• Monica : What I want to know is why did You give me a heart if You didn't want me to follow it? Love doesn't hide, that's what You said. It hopes all things, it endures all things, it never fails, it stays and it fights. That's what I'm fighting with now. I love that little boy. Please, if I messed things up, please help me to put them back on track. Don't let that child spend one more minute without his mother and don't let his father spend one more lonely night. Please. Please help me. Please.

• Monica : David, is there something you want to tell me before you go?

  David Morrow : Good-bye.

• Monica : If you change your mind, and you want help, just ask for it. It will be there. Believe it.

• Monica : That's why God made love so strong. So it can carry you all the way.

• Monica : It worked. Thank God it worked.

  Tess : What'd you do?

  Monica : I did something really radical, Tess. I prayed.

  Tess : Now you know that's dangerous. But if you think that gets you out of that little mess of yours, you got another thing coming.

  Monica : Oh, c'mon! Admit it. I pulled it off

  Tess : You and Who else?

• Tess : People are complicated things.

  Monica : I know. That's what I love about them.

• Monica : I thought you were someone else.

  Ruth Ann Russell : Yeah. For a moment so did I.

• Monica : Love doesn't hide, right; that's what You said. It hopes all things, it endures all things, it never fails, it-it stays and it fights... That's what I'm fighting with now.

• Monica : I don't have any vices except I hate to wear shoes unless it's absolutely necessary.