Touched by an Angel (TV Series)

Fallen Angela (1994)

Della Reese: Tess

Quotes 

• Monica : I'm afraid of the water.

  Tess : Say that again?

  Monica : I never had to work near lakes and oceans. I always asked to be excused from those and I was. Bad memories of the Flood, I guess.

  Tess : This is ridiculous! What is the first thing an angel says? "Fear not. Be not afraid. Except for large bodies of water." Is that it?

  Monica : I know there's nothing to be afraid of. I know it doesn't make any sense.

  Tess : Well, actually, it makes good sense now. The thing you're terrified of is something she loves.

  Monica : Who?

  Tess : Your next assignment, Angela Evans. She's fighting a terrible fear. The kind that comes in the night and whispers in your ear 'til dawn and then sends you running to the sea just to get the voices to quit for a little while. But Angela's voices won't quit. Not until her own voice drowns them out.

• Tess : Well, we all have our little idiosyncrasies, don't we? You don't like water and I'm not much on patience.

• Monica : You know, Tess, sometimes you can be really pushy.

  Tess : That's what friends are for.

• Tess : People only carry on in the dark when they don't want you to see what they're doing.

• Tess : Sometimes we're afraid of what we can't control.

• Monica : I wish I could make that decision for her.

  Tess : That's not what love is.

• Monica : I've never had a friend before.

  Tess : Who am I, chopped liver?

  Monica : You know what I mean. The more I get to know about human beings, the more I get to know about myself.

  Tess : Well, while you're learning about human beings, I wish you'd learn to make a good cup of coffee.