Quotes

Season 1

[Opening narration for each Season 1 episode] My name is Melinda Gordon. I just got married. I just moved to a small town. I just opened an antique shop. I might be just like you. Except from the time I was a little girl I knew I could talk to the dead. Earthbound spirits my grandmother called them. The ones who have not crossed over because they have unfinished business with the living and they come to me for help. In order to tell you my story, I have to tell you theirs.

Pilot [1.1]

[to Melinda] It's amazing how much you miss somebody you never met.

Pilot [1.1]

Melinda: Did we forget to pay the light bill? Jim: I have a headache, and I crossed two wrong circuit wires in the basement. Melinda: That's why you're a paramedic and not an electrician.

Pilot [1.1]

Andrea: Are you telling me that Village Java is haunted? Melinda: No, places aren't haunted, people are haunted. Melinda: Let me see, two weeks in Bermuda or Andrea's salary? Andrea: Honeymoons are so overrated.

Pilot [1.1]

[to Jim] We’re in a life business. Death is just a part of it.

The Crossing [1.2]

For the first time in my life, I hate being young.

The Crossing [1.2]

Melinda: Kenny, I need to go talk to your mom, so I need you to stay with Andrea. Kenny: The blind lady? She's weird.

The Crossing [1.2]

Faith: Why won't she take Clancy? She got something against the Irish? Jim: I'm sure she likes the Irish.

The Crossing [1.2]

Dylan: Hey, Andrea, I've got something for you. Andrea: You shouldn't have.

The Crossing [1.2]

Dylan: Kenny, said it was safe. Melinda: And if Kenny said it was safe to jump in front of a moving truck, you'd do it too?

The Crossing [1.2]

Jim: Wait, didn't you say that kid Dylan was playing with him? Well, how could he see him? Melinda: Kids can almost always see spirits. Where do you think imaginary friends come from?

The Crossing [1.2]

Melinda: What are you doing here, anyways? Kenny: Waiting for my mommy. Melinda: Here? Kenny: She told me when I get lost I should just stay where I am and she'll find me. Melinda: Maybe she doesn't know where to look. It might be time to go find her.

The Crossing [1.2]

Relax Jim, I'm not going to haunt the girl...I just want to get to know her.

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

Jim: Will wants to meet Andrea before their date. Melinda: Meet? Does he know we're talking about a dinner date and not a pre-nuptial agreement.

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

Will: Have you ever heard of a antique related emergency? Andrea: Um, uh, no.

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

We slept together while my sister slept in the other room. I was drunk and feeling sorry for myself, I don't know what his excuse was.

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

Barbara Harper: You run an antique shop in Grandview, isn't that right? Melinda: Yes. Barbara Harper: And you're an amateur psychiatrist in your off hours?

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

I'm dead, Natalie's stuck in a nut house, and he's off to keggers, to score with sorority chicks.

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

Do you have any idea how many people I've helped cross over? I'm beginning to feel like a travel agent who's never been on a plane.

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

[to Melinda] I guess if you let on you can see me, the good doctor would lock you up too.

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

[to Melinda] My sister needs me, she's barely half a person without me. As long as she's in this nut-house, I'm not crossing my legs, never mind crossing over.

Ghost, Interrupted [1.3]

Zoe: Is that light out there for me? Melinda: You're the only one who can see it.

Mended Hearts [1.4]

Cliff: Was that a date? Melinda: Did it feel like a date? Cliff: Well, she left before dinner arrived, so, roughly, I'd say yes.

Mended Hearts [1.4]

Melinda: What's it like to have a second chance? Cliff: I'm still wondering what happened to the first chance.

Mended Hearts [1.4]

[(to his rehab group] I always felt I had one foot in the grave and the other one on a banana peel. [silence from the group] Wow! Tough room.

Mended Hearts [1.4]

Nurse: Are you family? Melinda: Well, in the family of man, yeah, I guess.

Mended Hearts [1.4]

Melinda: Sorry we woke you. This one is having boundary issues. Jim: Don't they all.

Mended Hearts [1.4]

[to Cliff] Why did you take the heart? To avoid death or to choose life?

Mended Hearts [1.4]

Melinda: [after Nurse Ghost helps Melinda gain access to the donor records] Can I do anything for you? Nurse Ghost: Raincheck.

Mended Hearts [1.4]

Melinda: You said there was one more thing you needed to do. Connor: It might seem kind of morbid. Melinda: Hello...I'm talking to a dead person.

Mended Hearts [1.4]

Melinda: You're not really here. Connor: Semantics.

Lost Boys [1.5]

Like I said it gets spooky around here.

Lost Boys [1.5]

[about Rat] He hated his name, loved his nickname.

Lost Boys [1.5]

Jim: [seeing a bouncing ball on their stairs] Umm, do you want to explain this? Melinda: Tomorrow.

Lost Boys [1.5]

I just figured it out. It's not me not liking Lou. I don't like who you are around him.

Lost Boys [1.5]

I feel like I'm living in a John Carpenter film.

Lost Boys [1.5]

I'm listening to you. I'm just not paying attention.

Homecoming [1.6]

Melinda: [about a baby in an incubator] So much sorrow for such a young life. I think what you're doing is great. Angel: It's a calling, like yours. You're helping someone who's adopted? Melinda: He wants to find his mother. I'm hoping the hospital records will have her name, maybe an old address. Angel: Tricky business. Although from what I've learned over the years you can always count on the courts to have adoption records on file. Although getting to see them is another matter. Angel: Time for us to go.

Homecoming [1.6]

Diane: I'm not going to try to protect him anymore. Melinda: Protect him from what? Diane: From his birth mother, she's not the angel he thinks she is.

Homecoming [1.6]

Melinda: I have to tell a woman the baby she gave away eighteen years ago is dead, and then I have to tell her he wants to meet her. It's not the type of conversation you want to have over the phone. Jim: Or in person.

Homecoming [1.6]

Sybil: What's it like being dead? Jason: Kind of like being a freshman all over again.

Homecoming [1.6]

Melinda: We have company downstairs. Jim: Living or dead? Melinda: One of each.

Homecoming [1.6]

Either I have a fever or I'm seeing ghosts now too.

Homecoming [1.6]

Jason: What if she doesn't remember me? Melinda: I've never given birth but from what I've heard it's not something you forget.

Homecoming [1.6]

[to Melinda] Waiting in line is worse than being dead.

Homecoming [1.6]

Melinda: [looking at babies in the hospital nursery] Someday we'll have one of our own. Jim: Four or five. Melinda: Ouch! We'll definitely need a bigger house.

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

Melinda: I learned a long time ago, don't question the cosmic law of French toast. Jim: The what?

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

Melinda: I represent a patient of yours. Nurse Derek Lee: As in discharge? Melinda: As in dearly departed.

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

Nurse Derek Lee: [about the morgue] They say this place is haunted. Melinda: I've got news for you, they're right.

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

Are we the puppet masters or are we the puppets?

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

Jim: Where were you? Melinda: Oh...I um... Jim: I figured a hospital that you must be in hog heaven. Melinda: It's not all it's cracked up to be.

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

[to Melinda, about Jim] Sexy, sensitive and indestructable. I've got to get me a man like that.

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

Hope: Nobody can see me except for you. Melinda: It's a gift I have. Can I tell you , you're a little pushy. Hope: If you were in my position you would be too.

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

Jim: Am I dead? Melinda: No. Jim: You never know with you?

Hope and Mercy [1.7]

Melinda: Brad, you should read her note I found it in her charts. Melinda: Brad, I know you feel like this is your fault, but I want you to know that I don't blame you, you've always taken better care of me than I have myself from the day I first laid... Melinda and Hope: Eyes on you in detention and that hasn't changed today... Hope: I've never felt more in love with you then when I watched you all worried and sweaty and careworn running beside the gurney when they wheeled me in here so please, please don't wallow. Oh, and if I'm not awake when you get back, don't forget to feed Daisy and walk her, see you tomorrow, I love you. Melinda: Hope. Brad: Wow, I guess we're even. Hope: Thank you.

On the Wings of a Dove [1.8]

Alexis: I'm so glad Andrea talked you into having lunch with me today. Melinda: Actually, Andrea told me not to come.

On the Wings of a Dove [1.8]

Melinda: I can see you and you don't scare me. What do you want with my husband? Julian: It's not your husband I want, its you.

On the Wings of a Dove [1.8]

Rachel: What has the son of a bitch done now? Melinda: He hasn't done anything except die. Rachel: Well. I figured it would happen sooner or later. Looks like it's sooner.

On the Wings of a Dove [1.8]

Please, we saw The Ring together, you stayed under your seat.

On the Wings of a Dove [1.8]

[to his son] Find the parents of the man I killed. Don't tell them who you are. Befriend them. Do good things for them. Make their lives easier. Make a difference.

On the Wings of a Dove [1.8]

Melinda: Do you want us to go? Andrea: What's a malevolent spirit or two between friends?

The One (2) [1.22]

Melinda: You all need to cross over. Romano: Oh really? I beg to differ, you can all stay right here! Melinda: Yes, you can, but you shouldn't. There's nothing here for you anymore. Romano: That's a lie! Your families are here, your friends, your homes. No one knows what's on the other side, why take that chance? Melinda: You were all meant to move on, that's why you died. Romano: You died because the plane crashed. Melinda: The right thing to do is to cross over. Romano: The right thing? How many of you have done the right thing? You, you're wife is dying, isn't she? You didn't take this job because you needed the hours, you took this job because you hated to see her sick, to see her suffer, because you just needed to get away. Don't feel so bad, I've done terrible things too, things you can't even imagine...just look around you. All in a days work for me. What if the only thing that's waiting for you on the other side of that light is judgement and punishment? Melinda: What's waiting