City of Angels

Susan:
What good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?

Maggie Rice:
When they ask me what I liked best, I'll say it was you.

Seth:
You're a good doctor.

Maggie:
How do you know?

Seth:
I have a feeling.

Maggie:
Yeah, well that's pretty flimsy evidence.

Seth:
Close your eyes. Just for a second... what am I doing?

Maggie:
You're... touching me.

Seth:
How do you know?

Maggie:
Because, I feel it.

Seth:
You should trust that. You don't trust it enough.

Seth:
Hello Maggie! It's nice to see you again.

Maggie Rice:
It's weird to see you again.

Seth:
Weird is nice.

Ann:
Never date a guy who knows more about your vagina than you do.

Seth:
Let's go.

Maggie:
Where?

Seth:
Anywhere.

Maggie:
What'll we do?

Seth:
Anything.

Maggie:
Something happened in that room. I got this jolt that... something bigger is out there. Something bigger than me, bigger than you. Does that sound crazy?

Maggie:
Why do you wear the same clothes all the time? Why won't you give me your phone number? Are you married?

Seth:
No.

Maggie:
Are you homeless?

Seth:
No.

Maggie:
Are you a drummer?

Seth:
What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway.

Maggie Rice:
Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?

Seth:
I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.

Maggie Rice:
Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?

Seth:
It's perfect.

Seth:
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.

Seth:
Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

Maggie:
No dying yet, Mr. Messenger. Not until you give me Seth's phone number.

Maggie:
What happened?

Seth:
Free will.

Seth:
The little girl asked if she could be an angel.

Cassiel:
They all want wings.

Seth:
I never know what to say.

Cassiel:
Tell them the truth. Angels aren't human. We were never human.

Seth:
What if I just make her a little pair of wings out of paper?

Seth:
Can I ask you something?

Susan:
Yes?

Seth:
What did you like best?

Susan:
Pyjamas.

Susan:
Where are we going?

Seth:
Home.

Susan:
Can Mommy come?

Seth:
No.

Susan:
She won't understand.

Seth:
She will someday.

Maggie:
Are you a visitor? Who are you visiting?

Seth:
You.

Seth:
Are you in despair?

Maggie:
I lost a patient.

Seth:
You did everything you could?

Maggie:
I was holding his heart in my hand when he died.

Seth:
Then he wasn't alone.

Maggie:
Yes, he was.

Seth:
People died.

Maggie:
Not on my table.

Seth:
People died when their bodies give out.

Maggie:
It's my job to keep their bodies from giving out. Or what am I doing here?

Seth:
It wasn't your fault, Maggie.

Maggie:
I wanted him to live.

Seth:
He is living. Just not the way you think.

Maggie:
I don't believe in that.

Seth:
Some things are true whether you believe them or not.

[Maggie meets Seth at the library]

Maggie:
Do you come here a lot?

Seth:
I live here.

Maggie:
What do you do?

Seth:
Read.

Maggie:
No, I mean, your work.

Seth:
Oh, I am a messenger

Maggie:
What kind of messenger? Like a bike messenger?

Seth:
No, I am a messenger of God.

Seth:
Why do people cry?

Maggie:
What do you mean?

Seth:
I mean... what happens physically?

Maggie:
Well... umm... tear ducts operate on a normal basis to lubricate and protect the eye and when you have an emotion they overreact and create tears.

Seth:
Why? Why do they overreact?

Maggie:
[pause] I don't know.

Seth:
Maybe... maybe emotion becomes so intense your body just can't contain it. Your mind and your feelings become too powerful... and your body weeps.

Nathaniel:
Listen, kid: He gave these bozos the greatest gift in the universe - you think He didn't give it to us, too?

Seth:
Which gift?

Nathaniel:
Free will, brother. Free will.

Maggie:
Who- What are you?

Seth:
I came to take Mr. Balford... and I saw you. I couldn't take my eyes off you. How you fought for him. And you looked right at me... like I was a man.

Maggie:
"To take Mr. Balford"?

Seth:
I was there. We are always there in every room.

Maggie:
What are you talking about?

Seth:
I was there in the stairwell... when you cried for your patient. And I touched you, remember?

Maggie:
Why are you doing this?

Seth:
Because I'm in love with you.

Nathaniel:
Seth knows no fear, no pain, no hunger, he hears music in the sunrise. But he'd give it all up, he loves you that much.

Maggie:
I don't understand.

Nathaniel:
He can fall, he can give up eternity and become... one of us, human.

...

Maggie:
How do you know so much?

Nathaniel:
Because... I did it.

Mack Truck driver:
Where are you headed?

Seth:
Tahoe!

Mack Truck driver:
Reno.

Seth:
Tahoe!

Mack Truck driver:
I'm going to Reno!

Seth:
I'm going to Tahoe!

Mack Truck driver:
Well, hop in, we'll figure it out when we get there.

Seth:
Why did He do this?

Cassiel:
I don't know.

Seth:
Am I being punished?

Cassiel:
You know better than that.

Cassiel:
If you knew what was going to happen, would you still have done it?

Seth:
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. Just one.

Maggie Rice:
We fight for people’s lives, right? Do you ever wonder who it is we're fighting with?

Maggie Rice:
I don't understand a God who would let us meet, if there's no way we could ever be together.

Nathaniel Messinger:
[to Seth] I can't see you, but I know you're there.