Maggie Rice 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?
Played by Meg Ryan 
City of Angels (1998) · 30 quotes
City of Angels (1998) · 30 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in City of Angels (1998): in 18 of its 30 quotes
Most scenes with: Seth (12)
When they ask me what I liked best, I'll tell them, it was you.
More lines from Maggie Rice
4 quotes Maggie Rice Maggie Rice No dying yet, Mr. Messinger. Not until you give me Seth's phone number.
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.
Scenes with Maggie Rice
13 scenes Maggie Are you a visitor? Who are you visiting?
You.
'Maggie: He should have lived.
He is living. Just not the way you think.
Maggie I don't ... believe in ... that.
Some things are true whether you believe them or not.
Hello Maggie! It's nice to see you again.
Maggie It's weird to see you again.
Weird is nice.
Maggie Why do you wear the same clothes all the time? Why won't you give me your phone number? Are you married?
No.
Maggie Are you homeless?
No.
Maggie Are you a drummer?
You're a good doctor.
Maggie How do you know?
I have a feeling.
Maggie Yeah, well that's pretty flimsy evidence.
Close your eyes. Just for a second... what am I doing?
Maggie You're... touching me.
How do you know?
Maggie Because, I feel it.
You should trust that. You don't trust it enough.
Why do people cry?
Maggie What do you mean?
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.
Why? Why do they overreact?
Maggie [pause]
I don't know.
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.
Let's go.
Maggie Where?
Anywhere.
Maggie What'll we do?
Anything.
What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway.
Maggie Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?
I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.
Maggie Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?
It's perfect.
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.
Maggie What happened?
Free will.
Are you in despair?
Maggie I lost a patient.
You did everything you could?
Maggie I was holding his heart in my hand when he died.
Then he wasn't alone.
Maggie Yes, he was.
People died.
Maggie Not on my table.
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?
It wasn't your fault, Maggie.
Maggie I wanted him to live.
He is living. Just not the way you think.
Maggie I don't believe in that.
Some things are true whether you believe them or not.
Maggie [Maggie meets Seth at the library]
Do you come here a lot?
I live here.
Maggie What do you do?
Read.
Maggie No, I mean, your work.
Oh, I am a messenger
Maggie What kind of messenger? Like a bike messenger?
No, I am a messenger of God.
Maggie Who- What are you?
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"?
I was there. We are always there in every room.
Maggie What are you talking about?
I was there in the stairwell... when you cried for your patient. And I touched you, remember?
Maggie Why are you doing this?
Because I'm in love with you.
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