The Best Dr. Katharine Wyatt Quotes

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to her shrink in the elevator] what was the point? All those hours and all that money. what's the point? The world is a horrible place. Young people die of diseases. It makes absolutely no sense to try to be happy in a world that's such a horrible place.
Dr. Wyatt: [to Meredith] Yes.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. Wyatt: Yes, horrible things do happen. Happiness in the face of all of that... that's not the goal. Feeling the horrible and knowing that you're not gonna die from those feelings, that's goal.
Dr. Wyatt: [she stops the elevator] And you're not done. You've made progress because you're feeling and you're telling me about it. Six months ago, it would've been just you and a bottle of tequila. My door is always open.

Dr. Meredith Grey: What do you mean? I don't know what you mean when you say she didn't want to die.
Dr. Katharine Wyatt: When you were sitting on the floor with your mother, what did she say to you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: She told me to be extraordinary. She said that she had failed, but that I should be extraordinary, that I shouldn't depend on anyone. "Be an extraordinary woman, Meredith," is what she said.
Dr. Katharine Wyatt: And so you became a surgeon, just like her.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yes.
Dr. Katharine Wyatt: Which means you have all the tools to figure this out for yourself.
Dr. Meredith Grey: But I just...
Dr. Katharine Wyatt: You need to work this through, Meredith. I promise you, when you do, you're gonna be glad.

Dr. Lexie Grey: I forgive you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Lexie.
Dr. Lexie Grey: No. I forgive you. I forgive you for treating me like crap, and I forgive you for letting your friend treat me like crap.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Lexie...
Dr. Lexie Grey: I don't know how you get up in the morning, I honestly don't. Our dad abandoned you. And your mom by all accounts was the meanest person ever and you can't let Derek love you, and it all really, really sucks. But ever since I knew you existed, I had this fantasy about my big sister, and you have failed on every occasion to live up to that fantasy. But I still love you whether you are capable of letting me or not. So, I forgive you.
[storms out of bathroom]
Dr. Wyatt: [comes out of bathroom stall] Two o'clock work for you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah... ok.