Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

The Gift (2004)

Susan Sullivan: Rich Woman God

Quotes 

• Rich Woman God : That didn't go very well, did it?

  Joan Girardi : Isn't this a little over the top, even for you?

  Rich Woman God : What you tried to give Adam wasn't a gift, Joan. It was an attempt to avoid giving, just like your Internet search. Giving isn't about things.

  Joan Girardi : Oh, you're gonna lecture me on materialism? That rock on your finger could end world hunger.

  Rich Woman God : Just carbon. Same element that makes up the graphite in your pencils. People have endowed it with value. It might just as easily have gone the other way around.

  Joan Girardi : $50,000 pencils?

  Rich Woman God : [indicating her ring]  Why not? They do more than this.

  Joan Girardi : Okay, let's swap. Your ring for my Ticonderoga.

• Rich Woman God : A gift is an offering, a selfless act that adds something to someone's life, something that they need, and only the two of you can decide the value of that gift.

  Joan Girardi : He won't give me any hints.

  Rich Woman God : They're everywhere, Joan. You should know that by now. Find out what he needs, Joan.

• Rich Woman God : So, you know what to give him.

  Joan Girardi : Do you know what I was planning on doing when I went up there?

  Rich Woman God : I know everything.

  Joan Girardi : Then how could you let it go that far? I'm sure you've seen the... latest polls on teenage sex.

  Rich Woman God : You're always faced with difficult decisions. I can't make your choices for you. I'm really committed to that free will thing.

  Joan Girardi : That's a cop-out, if you ask me.

  Rich Woman God : If you hadn't gone in there, you wouldn't have found out what Adam needs.

  Joan Girardi : Adam needs to have faith in himself. That's your department, isn't it?

  Rich Woman God : No. It's yours. Faith is believing when there's no rational reason to believe, like your seeing me. Who would believe that's rational? Yet you know that it's true. You're the one who has the faith, Joan. Find a way to give a little to Adam.