The Best Denny Duquette Quotes

Denny: Mistakes are painful but they are the only way to find out who you are.

Denny: So, I wasn't one of the seven?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: It's past midnight. There were only six.
Denny: Then why are you crying?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: I'm not crying.
Denny: You are
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Oh, damn it.

Denny: Heaven, Hell, Limbo No-one really knows where we're going or what's waiting for us when we get there, but the one thing we can say for sure with absolute certainty is there are moments that take us to another place, moments of Heaven on earth, and maybe for now, thats all we need to know.

Denny: Meredith.
[to Dylan]
Denny: She's freaking out.
Dylan: She's *not* freaking out.
Denny: People tend to freak out.
Dylan: Trust me, she's fine.
Denny: Oh, okay Mr. I've-been-dead-longer-and-knows-everything.
Dylan: You know what? That's why I don't like to be here with you. Because you don't assess the situation, you just dive right in.
Denny: Oh, I'm not the one who got himself all blown up.
Dylan: [gets in Denny's face] Alright, you wanna do this now or you wanna do this later?
Denny: [gets in Dylan's face] Oh, I wanna do this now.
Dylan: You wanna do this now?
Denny: I will kick your ass anytime. *I'm* the one with the fresh heart.
Dylan: Oh, you're gonna kick my...
Dr. Meredith Grey: This is the brain thing. This is the ketamine neurotransmitter, right?
Denny: No.
Dr. Meredith Grey: 'Cause you'd think if it were my brain doing this, the first person I'd want to see, no offense, would be...
[Doc the dog jumps up]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Doc! What a good boy! Hi. Hi, buddy.

Denny: [after having a defibrilator used on him while conscious] I ought to kick your ass for making me scream like a baby in front of a girl I'm trying to impress

Denny: I believe in heaven. I also believe in hell. I've never seen either, but... I believe they exist. They have to exist... because without a heaven... without a hell... we're all just headed for limbo.

Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: He's just not George anymore. He's broken George. First he chops off his hair, then he starts hanging out with this Callie. What is-that's not a name Callie. Who is she anyway? I'm his best friend, not that he talks to me anymore.
Denny: Triple word score, 69 points. Woman, I'm beating the pants off you. Pay attention, what the hell are you doing?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: I'm knitting a sweater. Actually Meredith, that's my friend - the friend that broke George - is knitting a sweater. She's not really knitting a sweater because she can not knit but I want her to think she is knitting a sweater because she and I took a celibacy vow so she's replacing sex with knitting and so I'm knitting pieces of Meredith's sweater so that I can switch them out with hers so that she can really believe she's knitting because if anybody needs to be celibate, it's Meredith because she broke George.
Denny: You took a vow of celibacy?

- Lemons.
- My grandfather wasn't lying after all.
Denny: ...Or what's waiting for us when we get there.

[Denny smiles]
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Denny: Izzie...
Dr. Meredith Grey: You can see her?
Denny: No. Sometimes we'll be in the same place at exactly the same time, and I can almost hear her voice. It's like I'm touching her. I like to believe she knows I'm there. That's all you get. That's it. Moments with the people you love. And they'll move on, and you'll want them to move on, but still, Meredith, that is all you get. Moments.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Is this really happening?
Denny: I don't know. This is your afterlife, not mine.

Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Heaven or hell?
Denny: Yes.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: You're here for me.
Denny: Yes.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: No.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: You're not here for me. You're here FOR me. You're here for me.
Denny: I loved you so much. I loved you so much that when I got to come back for you, I thought... you were my heaven. But maybe... maybe I'm your hell.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I'm sick. I'm sick, aren't I? And instead of telling me... instead of telling me to save my life - you son of a bitch! You selfish son of a bitch. I hate you! I hate you!
Denny: I didn't know that there was a chance. Miracles happen. Medical miracles happen every day. You said it! You said that!
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Leave! Leave.
Denny: I can go now... because you know. But it's your choice. You get to choose. But, Iz, If I go... I don't know... I don't know if I can come back. If I go...
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: In the choice between heaven and hell, I choose heaven. I choose life. Go. Get out of here! Go out get of here! Go.
Denny: I really hope this is heaven.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Go. What are you waiting for?
Denny: This. *Denny kiss Izzie*

Dylan: Meredith, this is not your brain on drugs. This is death. You are dead. You are really freaking dead. You're dirt-nap dead. No more you, *dead*.
Denny: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, *way* too harsh! Remember we were going to take it easy? That was not easy.
[gently]
Denny: Meredith, you drowned. In Elliott Bay, you remember that?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah, that sucked.

Denny: I believe in heaven.
- I also believe in hell.
- I've never seen either, but I believe they exist.

- And it was horrible. It was horrible.
- It's ok.
- It's ok.
- She's in the car and she won't stop crying.
- Did you propose? no. She went to William's execution.
Denny: ...Moments of heaven on earth.

- You're...
Denny: I'm here for you, Izzie Stevens.
- I'm here for you.
[Izzie] You're not real.
- I told you, I'm here for you. you are not real.
- Izzie, I told you, I'm here for you.
- Dr Bailey says you need to come now.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Well, I don't want to be here. I want to go back.
Bonnie: We were told there wasn't a lot of time.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm out of time?
Liz: Well, we're not sure, baby.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh God! I can't - I want... - I had intimacy issues!
Denny: Yeah.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Do you know how *stupid* that seems now?
Denny: [everyone nods] Yeah, we do.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's not enough! It's not enough, just a whiff of Derek, or Cristina! I need to go back! Please? I need - I need...

- But the one thing we can say, for sure, with absolute certainty...
- Jackson?
Jackson: Can I have some water?
- Oh!
Denny: ...Is that there are moments that take us to another place...

Denny: I've been lying in this bed for close to a year, and I've had a lot of time to look back on my life. And the things that I remember best - those are the things I wasn't supposed to do and I did them anyway. The thing is, life is too damn short to be following these rules.

Denny: Izzie! Izzie, stop and listen to me. We're not doing this.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Don't worry. You're not gonna die. I will be here the whole time to make sure of that. And that's what this stuff is for.
Denny: This isn't about me dying. Alright? This is wrong.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: You've waited a year and a half to get this thing. Who knows when the next one is going to come along.
Denny: I'll take my chances.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: No. It may be too late by then.
Denny: Then its too late. Alright. Now get this stuff out of here!
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Denny, please. You have to do this.
Denny: No, Izzie! I'm not about to steal a heart from another man's chest! Not to mention, this'll be the end of your medical career.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I don't care about my medical career.
Denny: Alright, you know what? This has gone on long enough. I'm gonna call a nurse.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Everyone who is entered in the transplant program is clocked in to the second. To the second, Denny. You were clocked into the second and so was the other guy, I checked with UNOS. The difference between when you entered the program and when he entered the program is 17 seconds. That's it Denny. 17 seconds. I mean, its not even the length of a decent kiss. So this other guy, I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve this heart. I'm sure he does, but so do you! So do you. And if you tell me anymore crap about heading towards the light or looking down on me from heaven I swear I will kill you myself right now!
Denny: Izzie... I'm gonna be alright. Alright? You don't have to worry.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: What about me? What about me when you go to the light?
Denny: Izzie...
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: [She's beginning to cry] No, I get it! Ok? I get it! You'll be ok, you'll be fine, but what about me? So don't do it for yourself, do it for me! Please! Please Denny! Please do this for me! Because if you die, oh God, you have to do this! You have to do this for me or I'll never be able to forgive you!
Denny: For dying?
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: No! For making me love you! Please! Please do this for me, ok? Please? Ok, I can't do this if you don't! Please do this for me, cause if you don't, please?
Denny: Ok. Ok, I'll do it.

Dr. Miranda Bailey: [to Izzie] What do we know about Mr Duquette?
Denny: Capricorn, single, loves to travel and cook.

Dr. Meredith Grey: You think I want to be here? I swam. I fought. Hard. The water was cold.
Denny: Alright, but that thing in the tub. What was that?
Dr. Meredith Grey: It wasn't anything! It was... You see me in the tub?
Denny: I do *not* see women in the bathtub. I *wish* I saw wo - We know things.

Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I can feel you. I can smell you. If you're dead, how come I can smell your skin? So I'm thinking, maybe you're not dead. Maybe that was the part of me that was crazy, that part that thought you died. Maybe this is the not crazy part. You are still alive, right? That's it.
Denny: I'm sorry. No.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Are you a ghost... or a dream or...
Denny: You're a doctor, Izzie, a scientist. Think like a scientist.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I am! I am. Scientists believe what they can see, what they can feel... Facts. Hard facts. *she gives a slap in his face* I slapped you. That is a fact. I felt... your face my hand. Fact. I can feel your breath against my skin. Fact.
Denny: Izzie. Izzie, Izzie.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: *she starts to cry* What's happening?
Denny: You tell me.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I'm scared.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I *was* swimming. I was fighting. And then I thought, just for a second, I thought 'What's the point?' And I let go. I stopped fighting. Don't tell anybody.
Denny: Okay.

Denny: What happened in that water?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I *swam.* I *fought!*
Denny: No, you didn't. You *can't* stay here, Meredith.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I don't WANT to!
Denny: Yeah, you do. It's easier, but you can't. Because George's dad died. Because Izzie lost me. And Cristina - When she was nine, she was in a car accident with her father. And he bled out right in front of her while they waited for an ambulance to arrive. And Alex...
Dr. Meredith Grey: Stop.
Denny: They're *barely* breathing. This will break them. None of them deserves that. And this, this is the big one, so you pay attention. Do you know what kind of miracle it is that Derek is who he is? Do you know how rare it is that someone like him even exists? He's an optimist. He still believes in true love and soulmates. He's waiting for you. And if you don't come back from this, you will change who he is.

Denny: What? You like your men sick and feeble? You don't dig healthy guys?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: I dig you.
Denny: Then why are you all swirly and twitchy?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: No I'm not.
Denny: It's 'cause I asked you to marry me.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: So you remember that?
Denny: It's not the kind of thing I'd forget.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Yeah. Denny, um, I'm giving you an out.
Denny: Excuse me?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Well, I'm giving you an out. You thought you were dying and I was saving your life and well, you know, it was so
[gasp]
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: . We can't get married. I mean that would be insane. We should date, and have sex. Plenty of sex. You know when your heart gets better and you're out of the hospital, all the sex you can handle. But marriage is, um, marriage...
Denny: Okay, it's my turn now.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: But I need to...
Denny: No, no. We're taking turns. I've decided. It's polite and it keeps me from yelling. When it's your turn again, you can talk.
[pause]
Denny: For five years, I've had to live by the choices of my doctors. The guys that cut me open decided my life, there wasn't one choice that was mine. And now, I have this heart that beats and works. I get to be like everybody else, I get to make my own decisions, have my own life, do whatever the damned hell I choose. Now here's the good part, so you listen close. What I choose is you. You're who I want to wake up with and go to bed with and do everything in between with. I get a choice now. I get to choose. I choose you, Izzie Stevens. Ok, it's your turn again.

Dylan: Hey.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [confused] Hey.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Am I...
[Dylan smiles]
Dr. Meredith Grey: ... dead?
Denny: Damn right you are.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [looking between the two of them] Holy -
[cut to shot outside of room]

Denny: Heaven. Hell. Limbo.
- No one really knows where we're going...

Denny: For five years, I've had to live by the choices of my doctors. The guys that cut me open decided my life. There wasn't one choice that was mine, and now, I have this heart that beats and works. I get to be like everybody else. I get to make my own decisions, have my own life, do whatever the damned hell I choose. Now here's the good part, so you listen close. What I choose is you. You're who I want to wake up with and go to bed with and do everything in between with. I get a choice now. I get to choose. I choose you, Izzie Stevens.

Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: I can not date a patient.
Denny: Good luck with that.