Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

Jump (2004)

Avery Clyde: Nurse God

Quotes 

• Nurse God : You're right to worry about Adam. In his world, suicide is a reality. He's lived with it for three years.

  Joan Girardi : Oh, my God.

  Nurse God : Some suicides are motivated by rage, at another human being, or the universe. Or me. Others come from a deep sadness. Suicide seems the only way of stopping the pain. And then there are those who do not end their mortal lives. But still, they stop living, which is also a kind of suicide.

  Joan Girardi : Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Adam is gonna... kill himself? Why?

  Nurse God : Rocky finished well. The - let's call the ripples - ripples Rocky left behind are sad, but good. Adam's mother's ripples are not good.

  Joan Girardi : Okay. I get that "all that I can handle without falling over" are hints, so maybe uh, a... a better hint of what I should do?

  Nurse God : There's more than one way to talk to people who aren't here anymore. There's definitely more than one way to listen. Especially in Adam's case.

  Joan Girardi : Or I have an idea. You could bring Adam's mother back from the dead and make everything all right.

  Nurse God : Not today.