City of Angels (1998)
Meg Ryan: Dr. Maggie Rice
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Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Maggie Rice : Those eyes. The way he looked right... right down into me.
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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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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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Maggie Rice : I wait all day, just hoping for one more minute with you, and I don't even know you.
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Maggie : No dying now, Mr. Messinger. Not until you give me Seth's phone number.
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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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Maggie Rice : Are you here? I want to see you. Let me see you. Just stay. Just stay until I fall asleep.
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Seth : Am I too late?
Maggie Rice : Too late?
Seth : Jordan?
Maggie Rice : I couldn't marry Jordan. I'm in love with you.
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Maggie Rice : We have our whole lives together. You and me. Mr. and Mrs. Plate.
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Maggie Rice : Got a message for me?
Seth : I already gave it to you.
Maggie Rice : Well, did you use my pager? 'Cause I usually don't get my messages unless you beep me.
Seth : You've definitely been beeped.
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Seth : I was there in the stairwell... when you cried for your patient. And I touched you, remember?
Maggie Rice : Why are you doing this?
Seth : Because I'm in love with you.
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Seth : Hello Maggie! It's nice to see you again.
Maggie Rice : It's weird to see you again.
Seth : Weird is nice.
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Maggie : Something happened in my OR. And, I got this-this jolt - I got this feeling that there's something... bigger is out there. There's something bigger than me and bigger than you, and it- Does that sound crazy?
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Maggie Rice : We fight for people's lives in here, right?
Jordan Ferris : Uh-huh.
Maggie Rice : Don't you ever wonder who it is we're fighting with?
