City of Angels
City of Angels

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. One.

City of Angels
City of Angels

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

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City of Angels

Maggie Rice: I'm not afraid. When they ask me what I liked the best, I'll tell them, it was you.

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City of Angels

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

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City of Angels

Seth: [about Susan] She said, what good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?

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City of Angels

Seth: To touch you... and to feel you. To be able to hold your hand right now. Do you know what that means to me? Do you - Do you know how much I love you?

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City of Angels

Seth: You're an excellent doctor.
Maggie: How do you know?
Seth: I have a feeling.
Maggie: That's pretty flimsy evidence.
Seth: Close your eyes. It's just for a moment.
[touches her hand]
Seth: What am I doing?
Maggie: You're...

touching me.
Seth: Touch. How do you know?
Maggie: Because, I feel it.
Seth: You should trust that. You don't trust it enough.

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City of Angels

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 overact and create tears.
Seth: Why? Why do they overact?

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.

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City of Angels

Seth: I fell.
Ann: Evidently. Off a train?
Seth: I fell in love. Ann, please help me find her.

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City of Angels

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?

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City of Angels

Maggie Rice: Those eyes. The way he looked right... right down into me.

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City of Angels

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

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City of Angels

Maggie Rice: Do you feel that?
Seth: Yes.
Maggie Rice: And that? How's it feel? Tell me what it feels like.
Seth: I can't.
Maggie Rice: Try.
Seth: Warm. Aching.
Maggie Rice: It's okay. We fit together.
Seth: I know.


Maggie Rice: We were made to fit together.

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City of Angels

Seth: The little girl asked me 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?

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City of Angels

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

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City of Angels

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.

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City of Angels

Maggie: What happened?
Seth: Free will.

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City of Angels

Seth: Can I ask you something?
Susan: Yes?
Seth: What did you like best?
Susan: Pajamas.

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City of Angels

Nathaniel Messinger: 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 Rice: I don't understand.
Nathaniel Messinger: He can fall, he can give up his existence as he knows it, he can give up eternity and become... one of us.

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City of Angels

Maggie: Are you a visitor?
Seth: Yes.
Maggie: Well, visiting hours have been over since 8.
Seth: Wh-Why do they have that?
Maggie: What?
Seth: Hours. Doesn't it help the patient to be visited?
Maggie: Well, who are you visiting? Mr.

Messinger?
Seth: Right now?
Maggie: Yeah.
Seth: You.