Top 300 Quotes From Dr. Meredith Grey

Dr. Cristina Yang: Ok, what's wrong with you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: My mommy's a filthy whore.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [Walking towards Derek] You could walk, too, you know!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Wouldn't make a difference!
Dr. Meredith Grey: Why not?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Because the sand isn't real, Meredith!
Dr. Meredith Grey: [Runs towards Derek and faceplants in the sand while Derek laughs] You said it wasn't real! Ugh, I hate you!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You love me. God knows I love you. I'll be right here when you're ready.

Dr. Meredith Grey: ive me something to go on. Anything. What are your grandparent's names?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I don't have grandparents.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Where'd you grow up? What's your favorite flavor of ice cream? Where'd you spend your summer vacations?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Lighten up. It'll be good for your blood pressure.
[Stands and leaves Meredith alone]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh don't you tell me to lighten up. I'll lighten up when I... feel light.

Dr. Cohn: [to Meredith, who has her back turned away] Dr. Grey. Dr. Grey, I can't... We can't tell you how sorry... I am so sorry for your loss. Dr. Shepherd was a tremendous surgeon... t-tremendously gifted. I've long admired his techniques. I... it... was an honor.
[Meredith turns to face him and looks angry; she extends her hand to Penny for Derek's file]
Dr. Meredith Grey: [as she looks through the file] The call to not get a head C.T was a bad call.
Dr. Penelope Blake: We're not a trauma center. We're a teaching hospital.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You did the best you could.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Derek! Why can't I get anywhere?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You're worried about the kids!
Dr. Meredith Grey: I don't understand!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: The sand isn't real, Meredith!
Dr. Meredith Grey: I miss you!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I know.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Derek] Stop treating me like I'm your wife. On the trial, I'm a colleague. I'm allowed to say that it bums me out, that doesn't mean you have to feed me warm wilk and run a bath. Treat me like a doctor.

Dr. Richard Webber: [to Meredith] The board met this morning. They feel that a suspension would send the wrong message. They feel that what you did disgraced the hospital, the profession. I'm sorry. I did everything I could.
Dr. Meredith Grey: So what are you saying?
Dr. Richard Webber: You're fired. Effective immediately. You're no longer a doctor at Seattle Grace

Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [after he comes out of the bathroom] There's no reason to be ashamed. It's normal, healthy even.
Dr. George O'Malley: I am not ashamed. 'Cause I wasn't doing anything. I don't have to. I have a girlfriend.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: An imaginary girlfriend?
Dr. George O'Malley: An actual girlfriend.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: You know what? It's no big deal, you don't have to lie. I get it. You have needs.
[Meredith opens the door Izzie was leaning against]
Dr. Meredith Grey: What is going on out here?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens,11164: Nothing.
[George walks away]
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: He's freaked out because I caught him playing with little Jimmy and the twins.
Dr. George O'Malley: I have a girlfriend.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Ok.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: [appearing from Meredith's bedroom] It sounds like fun out here.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [On beach] Meredith! Meredith!
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, my God.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: [Waving from across the beach] Meredith! Meredith!
Dr. Meredith Grey: [In disbelief] Derek.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Can you believe we called an entire O.R. team and they came? Amazing.
Dr. Alex Karev: We've got balls. Clamp.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You've got balls. I've got *cojones*.
Dr. Alex Karev: You know those are balls, right?

Dr. George O'Malley: I ordered Chinese food...
Dr. Meredith Grey: I HATE Chinese food!

Dr. Meredith Grey: Ask Bailey to do it pro-bono.
Dr. Alex Karev: I can't ask her to do that.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Alex, he's your brother.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Evil's spawn has a brother?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Aaron, Christina Yang.
Aaron: Nice to meet you, Dr. Yang. I'm Aaron Karev.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Oh. My God. You're so nice.
[to Alex]
Dr. Cristina Yang: He's so nice. Why can't you be nice like your brother?
[to Aaron]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Angel's spawn.
Dr. Alex Karev: Why can't you?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Fair enough.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Seriously?
Susan: Okay, that stops right now.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's just, I'm waiting for Derek, and I..l'm very tired...
Susan: I don't care. Let me in.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Excuse me?
Susan: It's freezing out here, and I've been working myself up the nerve to say this, well, for a while now, so I need you to let me in now, please. It's my fault your father didn't fight harder for you. I knew about you. I could have pushed him to be a part of your life. I should have pushed him. You were a child. We were the adults. But we were just married, and it was new and... that's what I cared about. And I know the groceries and everything are a little much, but that's just what I do. I mean, quit looking at me like I'm crazy, cause that's not fair. I'm just trying to find a way to be there for you the only way that I know how. And if you can't accept that, fine. Just stop being so rude!

Dr. Meredith Grey: Great job. You see, you are going to make such a great flower girl.
Zola: I know. Are you ever gonna get remarried again?
Dr. Meredith Grey: [sighs] I don't think so Zozo, you know, I already had a great love in my life. I don't want to be too greedy.
Zola: Mom, I don't think love is like candy, I don't think you can be too greedy for it, and I don't think you can fill up on it.
Dr. Meredith Grey: When did you turn 40?

Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm stupid.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Slutty mistress.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Pregnant whore.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Sleeping with our bosses was a GREAT idea...

Lucinda: [to Meredith] Callie drops Sofia off at your place sometimes when she has to work or when she has plans or when she needs a night off. Correct?
Dr. Meredith Grey: A "night off"? Being a mom isn't a job. We don't punch in and punch out. There are no nights off. We are both single parents. That's not a dirty word, but we do need help getting our kids to where they need to be with all of their limbs intact, so we lean on each other. That's not a sign of weakness or bad parenting if that's where you're going with this. It takes a village and we have a village.
Lucinda: Here in Seattle.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Lucinda: The village you just mentioned, the seamless support system these mothers built, this essential network. It's all here in Seattle. Sofia's friends and her school, her teachers. Her home is here in Seattle. That's what Sofia would be leaving.

Dr. Cristina Yang: [about the shooter] That's the guy from the elevator.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What do you mean? What?
Dr. Cristina Yang: It's the guy from the elevator. He asked me for directions, how to get to the Chief's office.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I... I don't...
Dr. Cristina Yang: Meredith, the guy with the gun is looking for Derek.

[Cristina and Meredith are having a tug-o-war with the sparkle pager when Callie walks up]
Dr. Callie Torres: Um, anyone, uh... anyone ever think you two are a couple?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, because we screw boys like whores on tequila.
Dr. Cristina Yang: And then we either try to marry them or drown ourselves.
Dr. Callie Torres: Huh.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] They say love knows no bounds. I don't know about that. I feel like I've seen the bounds and pushed them a couple of times. Love definitely has bounds. I've seen where it ends. Love has boundaries. We know this. We knock them down, build them back up, then knock them down again. But does it have to be that way? Can't we learn? Can't we be brave? Can't we believe? Because, maybe, that's all we need. A little courage. A little hope. A little belief. Maybe there are no boundaries if we choose to not see them. Maybe love is unlimited if we're just brave enough to decide love is limitless. Maybe there's enough happy for everyone. Or maybe... give me a minute. I'll think of something.

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...

Dr. Cristina Yang: [during surgery on the rapist who had his penis bitten off by the girl he raped] Not to mention he'll never be able to have sex again.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, too bad.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Shame.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Let's all take a moment to grieve.
[quickly]
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Clamp.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] When we say things like "People don't change" it drives scientists crazy. Because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy, matter, it's always changing. Morphing. Merging. Growing. Dying. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting them be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing, despite every scientific indication, that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change, that's up to us. It can feel like death, or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life.
Dr. Cristina Yang: [to Dr. Owen Hunt] I do.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] Like at any moment, we can be born all over again.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] As doctors, we can't undo our mistakes and we rarely forgive ourselves for them, but it's a hazard of the trade. But as human beings, we can always try to do better. To be better. To right a wrong. Even when it feels irreversible. Of course, "I'm sorry" doesn't always cut it. Maybe because we use it so many different ways. As a weapon. As an excuse. But, when we are really sorry, when we use it right. When we mean it. When our actions say what words never can. When we get it right, "I'm sorry" is perfect. When we get it right, "I'm sorry" is redemption.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] Failure is an inevitability. Still, that shouldn't be a reason not to try. Every scientist was told no, over and over. The ones we remember, the ones who changed our lives, the Curies, the Salks, the Barnards, they're the ones who wouldn't take no for an answer.

Dr. Meredith Grey: After all this time, all your warnings about me sleeping with my boss and you're doing the same exact thing.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Oh, it's not the same thing.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's the exact same!
Dr. Cristina Yang: No, it's not. You and McDreamy are in a relationship.
Dr. Meredith Grey: And you and Burke are in?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Switzerland. It's very neutral there and they make very nice watches.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Gratitude. Appreciation Giving thanks. No matter what words you use, it all means the same thing: happy. We're supposed to be happy. Grateful; for friends, family, happy to just be alive. Weather we like it or not. Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] We're so hopeful at the beginning of things. That there seems like there's only a world to be gained, not lost. They say the inability to accept loss is a form of insanity, it's probably true, but sometimes, it's the only way to stay alive.

Dr. Meredith Grey: When I first got here, he was one of the worst people I had ever met in my life and now he's one of the best.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I don't know what to say to you.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: When Dylan died, when the bomb went off, did you feel, like...
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Like you were moving in slow motion?
Dr. Meredith Grey: He was there and then he wasn't. Like I blinked and he was gone.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I feel like I'm moving in slow motion. Like I'm moving in slow motion and everything around me is moving so fast and I just wanna go back to when things were normal. When I wasn't "Poor Izzie" laying on the bathroom floor in her prom dress with her- her dead fiance. But I am. So I can't. And I'm- I'm just stuck. And there is all this pressure cause everyone is hovering around me waiting for me to do something. Or say something, or flip out, or yell and cry some more and I'm happy to play my part. I'm happy to say the lines and do whatever it is that I'm supposed to be doing if it will make everyone feel more comfortable. But I don't- I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to be this person. I don't- I don't know who this person is.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Izzie...
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: How did this happen? How did we end up here? Why am I alone? Where's Denny?
Dr. Meredith Grey: You're not alone Izz.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] To do our jobs, we have to believe defeat is not an option. That no matter how sick our patients get, there's hope for them. But even when our hopes give way to reality and we finally have to surrender to the truth, it just means we've lost today's battle, not tomorrow's war. Here's the thing about surrender: once you do it, actually give in, you forget why you were even fighting in the first place.

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: I don't understand.
Dr. Owen Hunt: Richard designated you as his medical power of attorney.
Dr. Meredith Grey: But he can't make me next of kin without talking to me first.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: He did.
Dr. Cristina Yang: After Adele died, he revised his directive.
Dr. Meredith Grey: But...
Dr. Owen Hunt: Meredith, I know this is a shock, but we don't have much time. Right now, you need to make a decision.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Surgeons are control freaks. With a scapal in your hand you feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain. Your're ten feet tall and bullet proof... And then you leave the OR and all that perfection, all that control, just falls to crap.

Dr. Meredith Grey: The thing about being a surgeon, everybody wants a piece of you. We take one little oath and suddenly, we're drowning in obligations. To our patients, to our colleagues, to medicine itself. So we do what any sane person would do. We run like hell from our promises, hoping they'll be forgotten. But sooner or later, they always catch up. And sometimes you find the obligation you dread the most isn't worth running from at all.

Dr. George O'Malley: 007. They're calling me 007, aren't they?
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens,8289: No one's calling you 007.
Dr. George O'Malley: I was on the elevator, and Murphy whispered '007'.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, how many times are we going to go through this, George? Five, ten? Give me a number or else I'm gonna hit you.
Dr. George O'Malley: Murphy whispered '007', and everyone laughed.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: He wasn't talking about you.
Dr. George O'Malley: Are you sure?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Would we lie to you?
Dr. George O'Malley: Yes!

Dr. Meredith Grey: [Meredith is laying on her bathroom floor] It's not us. It's them. Them and their stupid boy... penises. They didn't tell me they had a wife. They gave absolutely no warning that they were going to break up with you.
Dr. Cristina Yang: [Cristina, who is sitting in the shower, slides the shower door open] It's not that Burke broke up with me. It's how he broke up with me. Like it was business. Like a business trans... Like he's the boss of me.
Dr. Meredith Grey: He is the boss of you.
Dr. Cristina Yang: And what's worse is that I care.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm gonna throw up again.
[Meredith gets up from the floor and crawls to the toilet. Cristina slides the shower door closed. Meredith groans]
Dr. Meredith Grey: No. Wait. False alarm.
Dr. Cristina Yang: [Cristina slides the shower door open again, Meredith sits up, her back against the wall] Look, the problem is estrogen.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, the problem is tequila.
Dr. Cristina Yang: You know I used to be all business, and then he goes and gets me pregnant.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [with her eyes closed, pointing her finger in the air] With the stupid boy penis.
Dr. Cristina Yang: [with her head on her arm, exasperated] Now I'm having hormone surges.
[Cristina looks up]
Dr. Cristina Yang: He ruined me. I'm ruined. He turned me into this... fat, stupid, pregnant girl... who cares.
[Cristina closes the shower door again]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Estrogen.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Penises.
[door opens, Izzie and George come into the bathroom]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Penises, Izzie!
Dr. Cristina Yang: [opens the shower] Estrogen, George.
[holds up a glass and Izzie pours more Fiji bottled water into it]
Dr. George O'Malley: [looks at Cristina] Okay.
[to Izzie]
Dr. George O'Malley: What did I miss?
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Came home to full-on vomit drama. Apparently she dumped Derek. And her.
[in a whisper]
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: She's been sleeping with Burke.
Dr. George O'Malley: I knew that.
[to Meredith]
Dr. George O'Malley: So you really broke up with Shepherd?
[starts brushing his teeth]
Dr. Meredith Grey: [softly] I feel empty.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Two hours of vomiting will do that to you.
[begins brushing her teeth]
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, I feel empty.
Dr. Cristina Yang: You're lucky. I feel pissed off.
[Cristina closes the shower]

Dr. Amelia Shepherd: Marriage is like a bed and breakfast in Vermont with sex.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Until you have kids.
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: And when I want the sex, I don't have to get out of bed and drive to the sex. I just roll right over.
Dr. Maggie Pierce: Can you stop it?
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: Why would I want to stop it? Married sex is dirtier than I expected.
Dr. Maggie Pierce: Not the sex. The bragging. You're flashing your money after going to the ATM. We get it. You're sex-rich. It is not polite to brag in front of people who are sex-poor. Some of us are barely making ends meet.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Alex] This is just a charge.
Dr. Alex Karev: Yeah, a felony charge.
Dr. Meredith Grey: But you haven't been convicted of anything. Alex.
Dr. Alex Karev: Every single one. Every guy I grew up with is either right where I left him, dead or in prison. I thought I was special 'cause I went to med school. Guess you can't wash the stink off trash.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You're not trash. You're a surgeon and you are not going to prison.
Dr. Alex Karev: You don't know that.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [Narrating in voice off] Too often, going after what feels good, means letting go of what you know is right.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We take our miracles where we find them. We reach across the gap and sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we touch.

Dr. Cristina Yang: [to Meredith] Mer, is Owen dead? Dr. Grey, is Owen dead?
Dr. Meredith Grey: He's... he's alive, he's unconscious, but he's alive.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Take Owen to the O.R across the way and take that bullet out and get April to help you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Cristina...
Dr. Cristina Yang: I can't talk right now. I'm trying to save your guy. Now please go try save mine.

Dr. Meredith Grey: So what happens when you're faced with a fix that's more permanent? Do you fight it? Do you try to resist? Or do you step back and decide that maybe acceptance is the best fix of all?

Dr. Meredith Grey: We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

Dr. Meredith Grey: To be a good surgeon you have to think like a surgeon, emotions are messy, tuck them neatly away and step into a clean sterile room, where the procedure is simple, cut suture, and close. But sometimes your faced with a cut that won't heal, a cut that rips the stitches right open.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Thank you... for calling me about Izzie.
Dr. George O'Malley: I didn't do you any favors.
Dr. Meredith Grey: But it meant something. That you called. It meant something to me.
Dr. George O'Malley: It didn't mean anything.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Right, okay. Sorry -
Dr. George O'Malley: Stop saying you're sorry!
[long pause]
Dr. George O'Malley: You wanna know something? I knew. I knew you didn't feel that way about me, even during... when we were in bed I knew. I knew and I still let it happen, because, um... well, I figured one night with you was better than never. So, will you just stop saying that you're sorry? 'Cause you didn't know any better, but I did. And I still let it happen. I'm sorry.
[long pause]
Dr. George O'Malley: I'm sorry, Meredith.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Cristina] Hey. Did you get that page? Lockdown?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Yeah, I mean, whatever. It means we can't leave. I never leave here anyway, so what do I care?
[Meredith laughs]
Dr. Cristina Yang: You know what? It's probably just a drill. Or like, a psych patient got out. Or a baby went missing from the nursery. Or there's an axe murderer on the loose.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Axe murderer would be fun.

[repeated line]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Seriously!

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to George] What are you doing with Olivia? You're letting her think you're emotionally available. You're letting her think she has a chance. And there is nothing worse in the world than thinking you have a chance when you really don't.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Is this the strangest thing that's ever happened in your O.R.?
Dr. Preston Burke: I'd have to say that it is.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Good, 'cause I'm very competitive.
Dr. Preston Burke: All the best surgeons are.

Dr. Meredith Grey: In the hospital, we see addiction every day. It's shocking, how many kinds of addiction exist. It would be too easy if it was just drugs and booze and cigarettes. I think the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it. I mean, we get addicted for a reason, right? Often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line to obsessive, compulsive, out of control. It's the high we're chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away.

Dr. Cristina Yang: You know, he's acting like I committed a crime. Like my apartment is full of stolen goods. He's acting like I kept my apartment to hide stolen good so I could do illegal transplants for money.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Are you sure he's not just acting like you lied to him about moving in?
Dr. Cristina Yang: What the hell's wrong with you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: My mommy's a filthy whore.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] It's all about lines. The finish line at the end of residency. Waiting in line for a chance at the operating table. And then there is the most important line: the line separating you from the people you work with. It doesn't help to get too familiar, to make friends. You need boundaries between you and the rest of the world. Other people are far too messy. It's all about lines. Drawing lines in the sand and praying like hell no one crosses them. At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So you can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross. Here's what I know: if you're willing to take the chance, the view from the other side is spectacular.

Dr. Miranda Bailey: [Extracts Judy doll from bowel] Ah yes... Mod Judy. She came with a yellow vespa.
[Laughs]
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Wait, you know what's strange?
Dr. Meredith Grey: We haven't had enough strange?
Dr. Miranda Bailey: She looks a little like you.

Dr. Cristina Yang: Total 007.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: 007? What's 007?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Licensed to kill.

Dr. Meredith Grey: You know what I was thinking before you guys came in here?
[sighs]
Dr. Meredith Grey: I was thinking that I wish my mother were here to see my kids. I was wondering if she'd make a good grandmother, but you know what that is? It's delusional thinking because my mother would make a horrible grandmother because she was a horrible mother, so... I'm delusional and hormonal. And I can't trust my delusional thoughts.

Ellis: You shouldn't be here.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Neither should you.
Ellis: Just keep going. Don't be a damn...
[hugs her]
Ellis: You are - You are *anything* but ordinary, Meredith. Now run. Run!

Dr. Meredith Grey: We enter the world alone, and we leave it alone, and everything that happens in between we owe it to ourselves to find a little company. We need help, we need support, otherwise, we are in it by ourselves. Strangers, cut off from each other, and we forget, just how connected we all are. So instead, we choose love, we choose life, and, for a moment, we feel just a little bit less alone.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Are you really as shallow and callous as you seem?
Dr. Alex Karev: Oh, do you want to go out for a drink later, and hear about my secret pain?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Does that line ever work for you?
Dr. Alex Karev: Sometimes.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh. Must be because you look like that.
Dr. Alex Karev: Like what?
[she gives him a look and he laughs]
Dr. Alex Karev: So is that a yes?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No. I can't, I'm seeing someone.
Dr. Alex Karev: Look, if you don't wanna go out with me just say so, you don't need to lie.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, okay. Well, I don't want to go out with you... but I think I really might be seeing someone.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Hey!
Dr. Andrew DeLuca: Hey yourself.
[Throws rock into ocean]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Impressive.
Dr. Andrew DeLuca: Your turn. Let's see what you got.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay.
Dr. Andrew DeLuca: [DeLuca Chuckles] There you go. Just gotta put a little bit more muscle into it.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah.
[Chuckles]
Dr. Meredith Grey: You know, this is the first time in my life I can ever remember not feeling competitive.
Dr. Andrew DeLuca: Is this your life?
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. Andrew DeLuca: Well, you said the first time in your life, but I don't know. I'm not so sure. Are we alive?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I think so. You look good. The beach suits you.
Dr. Andrew DeLuca: You too.
[Both smile]

Dr. Mark Sloan: This seat taken?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I guess not.
Dr. Mark Sloan: Double scotch, single malt. You look sad.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I just saw my father for the first time in 20 years.
Dr. Mark Sloan: How'd that go?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Could have gone better. What are you still doing here?
Dr. Mark Sloan: I'm hoping Addison shows up.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You're still in love with her?
Dr. Mark Sloan: You're still in love with him.
Dr. Meredith Grey: She won't show you know?
Dr. Mark Sloan: No?
Dr. Meredith Grey: He's not the kind of guy you leave if you can help it.
Dr. Mark Sloan: What if you're wrong? What if, just this once, life comes down on the side of the dirty mistresses?

Kendall: [about the interns] I'm sorry. I'm trying to listen, but are they supposed to look like that?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Like what?
Kendall: The bleeding and the shiner and that one looks like she's suicidal. They're supposed to be doctors?
Dr. George O'Malley: We're going to reserve judgement on that right now.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [as she opens the supply closet door] Megan?
[sees Addison]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh. Hi.
Dr. Addison Montgomery: Weren't you just on 3?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I was. We lost a patient, a little girl and I was just...
Dr. Addison Montgomery: Look, why don't you pick a floor and stay on it, and I'll pick a floor and stay on that because I really need a moment or two without you. Your face shows up in my head, your panties show up in my husband's pocket. Really, you're everywhere and I need a moment or two without you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I get that.
Dr. Addison Montgomery: [sarcastically] Thanks.

Dr. Alex Karev: Right now, being the guy who got beat up would feel better.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You said it yourself. We're grownups. We can't run. We have to face up to the stupid things we do. Supposedly, if we face up to them, something good comes out of it. I don't know what, but...
Dr. Alex Karev: 15 to 20, probably.

Dr. Cristina Yang: [Meredith and Cristina are looking for the cause of a patient's seizures] Are you seriously not going to tell me why you won't work with Shepherd?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No. What about infection?
Dr. Cristina Yang: No white count, no CT lesions, no fevers, nothing in her spinal tap. Just tell me.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You can't comment, make a face or react in any way.
[pauses]
Dr. Meredith Grey: We had sex.
Dr. Cristina Yang: [Goes back to the medical discussion] What about an aneurysm?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No blood on the CT, no headaches.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, no drug use, no pregnancy, no trauma.
[pauses]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Was he good? I mean, he looks like he'd be good, was it any good?

Dr. Meredith Grey: Hey.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Hey. You almost died today.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah, I almost died today.
[Derek is at a loss for words and starts heading to the door]
Dr. Meredith Grey: I can't, I can't remember our last kiss. All I could think about was, "I'm going to die today and I can't remember our last kiss," which is pathetic. But the last time we were together and happy, I... want to be able remember that, and I can't Derek. I can't remember.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I'm glad you didn't die today.
[Starts to leave but stops]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: It was a Thursday morning, you were wearing that ratty little "Dartmouth" T-shirt you look so good in, the one with the hole in the back of the neck. You'd just washed your hair and you smelled like some kind of... flower. I was running late for surgery. You said you were going to see me later, and you leaned to me, you put your hand on my chest and you kissed me. Soft. It was quick. Kind of like a habit. You know, like we'd do it everyday for the rest of our lives. And you went back to reading the newspaper and I went to work. That was the last time we kissed.
[Derek starts to leave]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Lavender. My hair smelled like lavender... from my conditioner.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Lavender. Huh.
[Smiles then leaves]

Dr. Meredith Grey: We begining life with a few obligations. We pledge allegiance fusto the flag. We swear to return out library books. Buw as we get older, we take vows, we make promises, we get burdened by commitments. To do no harm, to tell the truth and nothing but. To love and cherish till death to us part. So we just keep running up a tab. Until we owe everything to everybody, and suddenly think "what the... "

Dr. Cristina Yang: Did you just say something? Did you just speak? Oh, Meredith... okay, Mer, I can't understand you. Just try... try again, try again for me, okay?
[Meredith murmurs incoherently]
Dr. Cristina Yang: What? I can't... come on, please... please don't be...
[firmly]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Your brain works, okay? So all you need to do is form a word. *Please*.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [long pause] Ouch.
[Meredith very slowly opens her eyes and tries to focus on Cristina]
Dr. Cristina Yang: [half-laughing, half-crying] Oh... hi! I'm getting married to Burke! Not that that should be anywhere on your list of thoughts right now, but just in case you slip it in the hall later... you are the one person I wanted to tell.
[crying]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Thank you for not dying.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [Meredith and Derek are making out in the passenger seat of his car] You know, it sounds like the party's winding down. Yeah... Listen To Me!
Dr. Meredith Grey: [laughing] What?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: We should probably sneak inside now.
Dr. Meredith Grey: We've done enough sneaking for tonight. It was good sneaking, but enough sneaking.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: [pulling his shirt back up her shoulders] Yeah, I'd say we're pretty good sneakers.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: [as they are about to kiss she knocks on the window] You mind moving this tail wagon? You blocking me in.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Apparently not good enough.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

Dr. Meredith Grey: He knocks on the door, says he forgot his keys, and he's sorry for being gone so long.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] I used to spend hours studying old footage of my mother's surgeries. I dissected every move, every cut, every decision. I was piecing together a puzzle, watching, studying, learning. It's a luxury we don't have when the patient is splayed open in front of us. We can't rewind. There's no replay. We just have to cut and hope to God we know what the hell we're doing. Hindsight is always 20/20. It's easy to figure out what you should have done when you replay it. You see your mistakes. You know how you'd correct them. But that's the kicker, isn't it?

Dr. Meredith Grey: Edwards, we are going to do a necropsy. And we are going to find out what went wrong. And then we'll try again. And we'll fail again. Because that's what progress looks like.
Dr. Stephanie Edwards: Progress looks like a dead sheep?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No. Progress looks like a bunch of failures. And you can have feelings about that, because it's sad. But you can't fall apart. And then one day we will succeed, and we will save a person's life. And we will walk on the moon.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [looks at Alex] The Chief fired me.
Dr. Cristina Yang: [to Alex] You son of a bitch. I mean, are you happy now? Because this is all because of you.
[starts shoving Alex]
Dr. Cristina Yang: You and your big fat stupid mouth.
Dr. Alex Karev: Get off.
[Cristina continues to shove him]
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Kepner, control your people.

Dr. Amelia Shepherd: [to Meredith] It's my 30 day chip. I'm sober and I'm starting back at work on Monday, so I'm trying. I'm trying.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I know you are.
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: You... can talk. That's... That's great. They, uh, took the wires off?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah, this morning. I'm just not ready to forgive you yet.
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: I'm not... exactly ready, either. I'll see you later.
Dr. Meredith Grey: See you later.
[Amelia goes to take the chip back, but Meredith holds on to it]

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] You think that true love is the only thing that can crush your heart; that will take your life and light it up or destroy it. Then you become a mother.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [to Meredith] I hate that you're so happy.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Derek, there's gonna be lots of dirty sex for you tonight. Look forward to that.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I just don't understand how you didn't see it happen.
Dr. Ben Warren: You do. You know. You should know. You're surgeons. You know what it's like. You... When you operate, when you control if a person breathes another breath, when... when you hold their beating heart in your hand, when you are responsible for that life, you don't see or hear or feel anything else... The rest of the world just disappears. You know that. You all do. You can't tell me you don't.

Dr. George O'Malley: [the interns are each monitoring a newborn quintuplet] I have the best quint. Lucy. She just smiled at me.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: She's nine hours old, George.
Dr. George O'Malley: I'm saying, there are five babies here, and clearly *mine* is the advanced one.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Charlotte's smart. She's got wrinkles on her forehead. Very serious.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: OK. A: this is not a competition. And B: my quint kicks your quints asses. Emily's strong, she won't let go of my finger.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Hey, Julie has her organs on the *outside* of her body and she's still alive, thank you!
Dr. Alex Karev: Kate's the best one.

Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [standing in the bathroom, outside the shower, where George is, looking for tampons] Tampons, tampons. I reminded you before you went.
Dr. George O'Malley: I forgot when I got there.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: No.
[she opens the shower door]
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: No, you were so passive-aggressive.
Dr. George O'Malley: Naked! I am naked in the shower!
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [closes the shower door] Just tampons, George! I really needed tampons. God!
[Meredith enters the bathroom]
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: I'm not riding in the same car as him.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [looks at Izzie, who is standing in her underwear] Unless you're going like that, you're not riding with me either. Where are the tampons?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: He didn't buy them.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [to George] You didn't buy them?
Dr. George O'Malley: Men don't buy tampons!
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [opens the shower door again, and George falls over] You know what? You're gonna have to get over the whole man thing, George! We're women! We have vaginas! Get used to it!
Dr. George O'Malley: [she walks out of the bathroom, leaving George lying on the floor of the shower] I am not your sister!
[he slams the shower door]

Dr. Cristina Yang: Do we have to do that thing, where I say something, and then you say something, and then somebody cries and there's like a moment?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yuck.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Good.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Stop looking at me like that.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Like what?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Like you've seen me naked.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Intimacy is a four syllable word for, "Here are my heart and soul, please grind them into hamburger." It's both desired, and feared. Difficult to live with, and impossible to live without. Intimacy also comes attached to the three R's... relatives, romance, and roommates. There are some things you can't escape. And other things you just don't want to know.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Pain comes in all forms. The small twinge, a bit of soreness, the random pain. The normal pains we live with everyday. Then there's the kind of pain you can't ignore. A level of pain so great that it blocks out everything else... Makes the rest of your world fade away, until all we can think about is how much we hurt. How we manage our pain is up to us. Pain. We anesthetize , ride it out, embrace it, ignore it, and for some of us the best way to manage pain is to just push through it.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...

Dr. Meredith Grey: Giving birth may be all intense and magical and stuff but the act itself is not exactly pleasant. But it's also the beginning of something incredible... something new... something unpredictable... something true... something worth loving... something worth missing... something that will change your life forever.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Superstition lies in the space between what we can control and what we can't. Find a penny pick it up, and all day long you will have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck, but does saying it 33 times really help? I mean is anyone really listening, and if no one is listening why do we bother doing those strange things at all? We rely on superstition because we are smart enough to know we don't have all the answers, and that life works in mysterious ways. Don't diss the ju ju from wherever it comes.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Like I said, disappearances happen. Pain... goes phantom. Blood... stops running. People... people fade away. There's more I have to say. So much more. But... I've disappeared...

Dr. Meredith Grey: [about Cristina] Owen. She didn't have the abortion. She wants to but she can't do it because of you. Because she loves you and instead of loving her, you're punishing her. And for what? For being the woman that you fell in love with?
Dr. Owen Hunt: This isn't any of your business.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay, do you know what will happen to Cristina if she has a kid that she doesn't want? It will almost kill her. Trying to pretend that she loves a kid as much as she loves surgery will almost kill her, and it'll almost kill your kid. Do you know what it's like to be raised by someone who didn't want you? I do. To know you stood in the way of your mother's career? I do. I was raised by a Cristina. My mother was a Cristina. And as the child she didn't want, I am telling you, don't do this to her because she's kind and she cares and she won't make it. The guilt of resenting her own kid will eat her alive.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I was devastated when you died.
Dr. George O'Malley: You were all cracking up at my funeral.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Well, we were...
Dr. George O'Malley: No. What? What? No. It -- That made me happy.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I was devastated. And then I was okay. And even with Derek... Eventually you go on. And the kids would go on.
Dr. George O'Malley: They would, but... I think maybe with them it's different. My mom didn't go on.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No?
Dr. George O'Malley: Not really, not like she used to. some grief is -- is heavier than other grief. Sometimes it moves through you, and sometimes it just gets stuck. And you carry it, like my mom. My mom carries it. Sometimes I try to shake it out of her.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. George O'Malley: Like, you know...
Dr. Meredith Grey: Like you haunt her?
Dr. George O'Malley: Well, I mean, if you want to call it that, I... I just want her to... let it go. I want her to know I'm still me even though she can't touch me, and she can't see me, but I am still me.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's not the same.
Dr. George O'Malley: No, I know.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you let me scrub in for this operation because I slept with you?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yes.
[pause]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Just kidding.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It's not a day on the calendar, not a birthday, not a New Year. It's an event. Big or small. Something that changes us. Ideally, it gives us hope. A new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning. But it's also important to remember that amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Hey, Maddy, I'm Dr. Grey. Mind if I take a look at that cut on your face?
Kate: You know, she's so sorry. So sorry.
Maddy: Is my daddy gonna die?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I don't know. I hope not.
Maddy: How come?
Dr. Meredith Grey: How come what?
Maddy: How come he don't die? I shot him lots'a times. How come he don't die?

Dr. Cristina Yang: [to Meredith] Are they gonna fire you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm suspended. The Chief backed way off when he found out it was Adele. I did what I had to do.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Meredith...
Dr. Meredith Grey: And I couldn't live with myself if I'd done anything different
[sees Alex talking to Janet]
Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Alex] What did you say to her?
Dr. Alex Karev: I didn't say anything.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Janet, anything he says...
Dr. Alex Karev: Can you just shut up for one second? This isn't about that.
Social: We're granting you temporary custody of Zola, pending the completion of the petition, assuming that if all goes well, you'll be granted permanent custody and her doctor here says she's doing great, so you can take her home... today.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We're all susceptible to it. The dread and anxiety of not knowing what's coming. It's pointless in the end. Because all the worrying, and all the making of plans for the things that could happen it only makes things worse. So, walk your dog, or take a nap. Just, whatever you do, stop worrying. Because the only cure for paranoia is to be here. Just the way you are.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: So I go upstairs, as I'm walking down the hall I try to prepare myself for what I'm going to see when I walk into my bedroom. I step on a man's jacket that doesn't belong to me. And everything I know... just shifts. Because the jacket that doesn't belong to me is a jacket that I recognize, what I know now is that when I go into my bedroom, I'm not just going to see that my wife is cheating on me. I'm going to see that my wife is cheating on me with Mark, who happened to be my best friend... I walked out, flew out to Seattle.
Dr. Meredith Grey: And then you met me.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: And then I met you
Dr. Meredith Grey: Well, what was I to you? The girl you screwed to get over being screwed?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You were like coming up for fresh air. It's like I was drowning and you saved me. It's all I know.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's not enough.

Dr. Meredith Grey: It's my party and I'll get drunk if I want to.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [Izzy is walking past a bed that is curtained off, but hears Meredith's voice] Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [Opens curtain to find Meredith trying to stick a needle in her arm] What are you doing?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm trying to insert my own banana bag... which sounds kinda dirty, but it really isn't.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] Looking back, it's easy to see when a mistake has been made, to regret a choice that seemed like a decent idea at the time... But if we used our best judgment and listened to our hearts, we're more likely to see that we chose wisely, and avoided the deepest, most painful regret of them all, the regret that comes from letting something amazing pass you by.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: Meredith, I'm so sorry!
[looks sympathetic]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Addison... what are you doing here?
Dr. Addison Montgomery: You would have know if you had botherd to return any one of my phone calls!
Dr. Addison Montgomery: [introducing herself to Meredith] I'm Addison Shepherd.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Shepherd...
[Meredith looks very sad]
Dr. Addison Montgomery: And you must be the women that's screwing my husband.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Don't look at me like that.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Like what?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Like you've seen me naked!

Dr. Meredith Grey: Do I choose? Do I get to decide if I go back?
Dr. George O'Malley: I don't know. I didn't. I would have stayed if I could've. It's different for everyone, though.

Dr. George O'Malley: Why? I just wanna know... why you - if you didn't want to.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I didn't know I didn't want to. You were there and you were saying all these perfect things and I was sad. And so I thought "Maybe... maybe I've just been overlooking what's been in front of me... and if I just give it a chance, because you're George and you're so great." I didn't know I didn't want to until I knew I didn't want to.
Dr. George O'Malley: Yeah. Okay.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Can we please just go back to everything the way it was?
Dr. George O'Malley: I don't know how to go back. No. I'm done. We're done.

Meredith: In life, only one thing is certain, apart from death and taxes. No matter how hard you try, no matter how good your intentions, you are going to make mistakes. You're going to hurt people. You're going to get hurt.

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.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [about Zola] Do you know how long her shunt must have been malfunctioning for her bowel to have gotten this bad?
Dr. Meredith Grey: They didn't know what to look for.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Exactly, because she should've been with us.
Dr. Meredith Grey: But she's not and that's my fault and I may never sleep another night again because of that, but if there's a prayer of us getting her back then we just have to dot our I's and cross our T's and not mess with the rules. Arizona is a great surgeon. Please don't make it worse.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: [to Arizona] What is your plan on fixing this?
Dr. Arizona Robbins: It's just kinked. Once I get in there and I remove the adhesions and fix the obstruction. The shunt will be fine.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: What if it's not? What if it's disconnected or broken?
Dr. Arizona Robbins: Then I convert to a V-A shunt. Derek, I can do this. Let me do this.

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. Cristina Yang: That's the Nazi?
Dr. George O'Malley: I thought the Nazi would be a man.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I thought the Nazi would be... the Nazi.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Maybe it's professional jealousy. Maybe she's brilliant and they call her a Nazi because they're jealous. Maybe she's nice.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Let me guess - you're the model.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] No matter how thick-skinned we try to be, there's millions of electrifying nerve endings in there. Open and exposed and feeling way too much. Try as we might from feeling pain. Sometimes it's just unavoidable. Sometimes, that's the only thing left: just feeling.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Custody of a penis?
Dr. Richard Webber: Yes. Until the cops come for it.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Ok, well, what am I supposed to do with the penis?

Dr. Derek Shepherd: So, who's next, Alex? He likes to sleep around... you two have that in common.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You don't get to call me a whore! When I met you, I thought I had met the person I would spend then rest of my life with. I was done. So all the boys, and all the bars, and all the obvious daddy issues... who cared? Because I was done. You left me! You chose Addison! I'm all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke. You don't get to call me a whore!

Dr. Meredith Grey: Owen! Thank God. Derek has been shot, no one was down here, we didn't know what to do. Cristina's in there. She told me not to look, but she might need help.
Dr. Owen Hunt: Uh, she seems to be doing okay, but I'll just head in there and see what I can do.
[walks to the OR doors]
Dr. Meredith Grey: What, you're not scrubbing in?
Dr. Owen Hunt: I'll assess first and then if she needs me, I'll scrub in. Cristina was right. You should stay down there. Okay? Don't move.
Dr. April Kepner: A real surgeon is here. That's a good thing. That means Derek's gonna be okay.
[Owen enters the O.R and Gary Clark is in the room pointing a gun at Cristina]

Dr. Meredith Grey: Wow, you and George were really going at it last night.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [Spits out water] What?
Dr. Cristina Yang: The laughing, the drinking, the music. Okay, nobody, I mean me, needs to hear George's rendition of Sexy back at 3:00 in the morning.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [laughs] Yeah, yeah. You should have said something or you know, banged on the wall.
Dr. Cristina Yang: It's like living in a youth hostel.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Well, the important thing is that she and George made up. You did, right?
Dr. Alex Karev: [Interrupts] I need to use your bathroom
Dr. Meredith Grey: Why?
Dr. Alex Karev: Cause O'Malley's puking in mine.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Youth hostel.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] Secrets can't hide in science. Medicine has a way of exposing the lies. Within the walls of the hospital the truth is stripped bare. How we keep our secrets outside the hospital, well that's a little different... One thing is certain, whatever it is we're trying to hide, we're never ready for when the truth gets naked. That's the problem with secrets... Like misery, they love company. They pile up and up until they take over everything, until you don't have room for anything else. Until you're so full of secrets you feel like you're going to burst. The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open. Like it or not. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them. But the problem with secrets is, even when you think you're in control... You're not.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I kissed Derek
Dr. Cristina Yang: You kissed Derek?
Dr. Meredith Grey: In the elevator.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Why'd you kiss him in the elevator?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I was having a bad day. I am having a bad day.
Dr. Cristina Yang: This is what you do on your bad days, make out with Dr. McDreamy?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Well, you know that and carrying around a penis just makes everything seem so shiny and happy

Dr. Meredith Grey: Mom? Mommy?
Ellis: Meredith? You grew up!
Dr. Meredith Grey: I did.
Ellis: It's a shame. It sucks being a grown up, but the carousel never stops turning. You can't get off.

Dr. Andrew DeLuca: I don't regret it.
Dr. Meredith Grey: How did you know I was wondering that?
Dr. Andrew DeLuca: I don't know. I just did. I don't regret it. You know, we walk through our lives and we witness atrocities. See homeless people on the street asking for help and we just walk right past them. See people that can't pay for medicine for their children, see people beating their kids, and we just say "Well, it's none of our business". See atrocities on the news every day. Crimes and cruelties committed by our government, paid for, nonetheless, by our own tax dollars. And what do we do? We just change the channel, right? We just -- We tune it out. Then we go back to work and we pretend like what we just saw, or that article we just read was somehow normal or acceptable, and the people who take to the streets screaming out for change, they're written off as crazy, they're written off as extreme. Doesn't make any sense. Makes no sense. But what you did, Meredith, risking your medical license to save that little girl -- That made sense. And what I did -- following that woman, not letting up, not letting her get away, not letting her harm another single human being. Yeah, it was dangerous, but it made sense. It's the only thing that made sense. So I don't regret it.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [to Meredith] I still don't understand what you possibly could've been thinking.
Dr. Meredith Grey: They fired me. Janet basically told me that they were gonna take Zola away. I mean, possibly send her back to Malawi. You and me... I just needed some time. I just needed to hold her and look at her and just think about how everything, everything got so screwed up. You should take Zola. Janet has a problem with me, not with you and we need to do everything that we can to make sure they don't take her away and if that means that you have custody of her and I don't... then, that's what we need to do.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You're not fired. Richard's gonna take the fall for you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What? He can't do that. I'm not gonna let him do that.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yes, you will. If you wanna keep this baby, you will let him protect you.

Dr. Meredith Grey: You're sleeping with someone?
Dr. George O'Malley: What? Who?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Why is that such a shock? Even George managed to get some action.
Dr. George O'Malley: Correction, George got some syphilis.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Stop whining! This is your wedding day. You will go down that aisle and you will get married. If I have to kick your ass every step of the way to get you there, you WILL walk down the aisle, you WILL get married. Do you hear me, Cristina? We need this. We need you to get your happy ending.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We grow bigger and taller, but we never actually grow up. I've heard it's possible to, but i've just never met anyone who actually has. Without our parents to defy we'll break the rules we set for ourselves. We'll throw temper tantrums when things don't go our way. We'll whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark. We'll look for comfort wherever we can find it, and like children, we'll never give up hope

Dr. Meredith Grey: At the end of the day, there are some things you just can't help but talk about. Some things we just don't want to hear, and some things we say because we can't be silent any longer. Some things are more than what you say. They're what you do. Some things you say because you have no other choice. Some things you keep to yourself. And not to often, but every now and then, some things simply speak for themselves.

Dr. Nathan Riggs: [to Meredith] I'm sorry.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Don't. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't apologize. If this were Derek, I would've already been gone.

Dr. Meredith Grey: There are moments when all of the stars align. When everything seems as it should be. Your life seems to have sorted itself out. It's not like all our problems go away. It's just the problems are suddenly manageable. You feel so good you wonder if it's real. And if I've learned anything, I can tell you it is. It's very real, but it will not last. There are days when you feel like you can conquer anything and it feels like everything will be okay. Like I told you, the feeling doesn't last. I'm not trying to be cynical. It's just that even when a day starts out so, so well, that day can end so, so badly.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Where are we?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I'm gonna tell you. All right. My mother's maiden name, Maloney. I have four sisters. I have, uh, nine nieces. Five nephews. I like coffee ice cream, single-malt scotch, occasionally a good cigar. I like to fly fish. And I cheat when I do the crossword puzzle on Sunday. And I never dance in public. Um, favorite novel, The Sun Also Rises. Favorite band, The Clash. My favorite color is blue. I don't like light blue, indigo. The scar right here on my forehead, that's why I don't ride motorcycles anymore. And I live in that trailer. All this land is mine. I have no idea what I'm gonna do with it. So that's it. That's all you've earned for now. The rest you're just... just gonna have to take on faith.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Derek said the sand isn't real.
Clifford: Yeah, no. Neither is the ocean. It IS nice, though. I wouldn't want to leave either.
Dr. Meredith Grey: The beach?
Clifford: Your kids.
[chuckles]
Clifford: Got great kids.
Dr. Meredith Grey: They're the best. You didn't meet them.
Clifford: I check in sometimes.
Dr. Meredith Grey: How did you get older?
Clifford: Sand isn't real, the ocean isn't real. The body... it's not real. Maybe it's just more peaceful for you to imagine me older?
Dr. Meredith Grey: You sound like a fortune cookie.
[Both laugh]

Dr. Meredith Grey: As surgeons, we are our brother's keepers. Ride or die. Womb to tomb. We see each other's fears. We see the white knuckle panic of failure. We see ourselves. And who the hell likes looking at that? We walk through these doors as interns, chips on our shoulders. Loners. Lesser rockstars on the verge of greatness. We're thrown into the deep end together. Told to save lives together. To save each other.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] When I was 5, my mom lost me in a park. I don't remember much except one minute I was riding the carousel and then the next, she was gone. I don't remember how I found her. I don't remember how I got home. All I remember is what happened next. She told me not to worry. She told me everything would be fine. Funny, isn't it? The way memory works. The things you can't quite remember and the things you never forget. The carousel never stops turning.

Dr. Cristina Yang: What are you doing?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, you know, just sitting here with my penis.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] I always said I'd be happier alone. I have my work, my friends, but someone in your life all the time? More trouble than it's worth. Apparently, I got over it.

Dr. Meredith Grey: They hit you out of nowhere. When bad things come, they come suddenly, without a warning.
Dr. Meredith Grey: We rarely get to see the catastrophe coming, no matter how well we try to prepare for it.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [...] The bad things come suddenly, without a warning, but we forget that sometimes that's how the good things come too.

Dr. Meredith Grey: There *are* medical miracles. Being worshippers at the alter of science, we don't like to believe miracles exist, but they do. Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they *do* happen. Miracles *do* happen in medicine. They happen every day. Just not always when we need them to happen.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken. It wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. But as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.

Dr. Shane Ross: [to Heather] Go get help, now.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Ross, we don't have time. You need to open me back up and find the source of this bleed.
Dr. Shane Ross: I can't. I've never...
Dr. Meredith Grey: Shane, it's a basic midline laparotomy. Pack the four quadrants. Find the source of the bleed. Do not let me bleed out on this table.
Dr. Shane Ross: Dr. Grey...
Dr. Meredith Grey: Shane, do it. Right now!

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [as he is walking up to Meredith, walking around, surrounded by candles] Meredith....
Dr. Meredith Grey: [unaware that Derek is approaching] Stupid, corny, idiotic, I can't believe I did this. Stupid, loser, son of a ... I could be at home instead of ... oh stupid, stupid brain man!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: [smiling] Meredith...

Dr. Meredith Grey: [Narrating] We're supposed to forget the past that landed us here, ignore the future complications that might arise and go for the quick fix.

[Bailey who is pregnant, is rubbing her stomach and has labored breaths as she walks through the halls of the hospital. The interns are talking as they follow her]
Dr. George O'Malley: Look at her belly. She's almost as wide as she is tall.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Are her ankles swollen? Is that why she's waddling?
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: What's gonna happen to us when she goes on leave?
Dr. Cristina Yang: She's going on leave?
Dr. Meredith Grey: What do you think happens when people push babies out of their vagina?
[George laughs]
Dr. George O'Malley: Do you think we're going to get a new resident?
Dr. Alex Karev: Nah. They'll probably just let us wander around unattended. See how much damage we can do.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Yeah, well, you would know.
[Enthusiastic]
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Hey, guys, we should all get together and get Bailey a Christmas gift for the baby, or we could, um, organize some sort of Secret Santa thing.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, listen Tiny Tim, you can take your...
[George and Meredith move in next to each other to block Cristina from Izzie]
Dr. George O'Malley: Sounds great.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Secret Santa sounds great, Izzie.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Okay.
[turns around and leaves]
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: [Cristina has an appalled look on her face]
Dr. Meredith Grey: We're being supportive.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Sooner or later, we have to put aside our denial and face the world, guns blazing. Denial: it's not just a river in Egypt. It's a freaking ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] There's an end to every storm. Once all the trees have been uprooted, once all the houses have been ripped apart. The wind will hush, the clouds will part, the rain will stop, the sky will clear in an instant. And only then in those quiet moments after the storm do we learn who was strong enough to survive it?

Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay, here it is. Your choice, it's simple, her or me. And I'm sure she's really great. But Derek, I love you. In a really, big really big pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your bedroom window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you... love you. So pick me. Choose me. Love me. I'll be at Joe's tonight so if you do decide to sign the papers, meet me there.

Dr. Meredith Grey: What is going on out there?
Dr. Jo Wilson: Huge mudslide. Gotta go.
Dr. Stephanie Edwards: Lot of crush injuries. Super cute baby.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I thought the E.R. was closed!

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] Don't let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice. So use it. Speak up. Raise your hands. Shout your answers. Make yourself heard. Whatever it takes. Just find your voice and when you do, fill the damn silence.

Dr. Meredith Grey: There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile... and then there are the days where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that you can't even figure out why you're making. A wise man once said, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant it, nothing comes without a price... So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building. Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming... When we don't have time to come up with a strategy, to pick a side, or to measure the potential loss.When that happens, when the battle chooses us, that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Only six women out of twenty.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Yeah. I hear one of them is a model. Seriously, that's gonna help with the respect thing?

Dr. Derek Shepherd: You know what I talked about with the other Grey? All the things this Grey won't let me say.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You can say anything to me.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I want to marry you. I want to have kids with you. I want to build us a house. I want to settle down and grow old with you. I want to die when I'm 110 years old in your arms. I don't want 48 uninterrupted hours. I want a lifetime.
[Meredith takes a few steps back]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: . Do you see what happens? I say things like that and you fight the urge to run in the opposite direction. It's okay. I understand. I didn't, but now I do, I do. You're just getting started and I've been doing this for a long time. Deep down you're still an intern, and you're not ready.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm not ready right now, but things can stay the way they are and I'll get ready.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Things can't stay the way they are. We can still meet in the elevator, the on call room. And maybe you'll get ready, and I'll wait. I'll wait until you're ready.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay then.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yeah, but what if, what if while I'm waiting I meet someone who is ready to give me what I want from you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: What if you do?
[the elevator opens in front of them and Derek steps in]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I don't know.
[the doors close between them]

Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm still mad at you. And I don't know if I trust you. I wanna trust you but I don't know if I do, so I'm just gonna try. I'm gonna try and trust you because I believe that we can be extraordinary together rather than ordinary apart.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I can't think of any one reason why I want to be a surgeon, but I can think of 1,000 reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose. There are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit, but here's the thing... I love the playing field.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We should pretend it never happened.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: What never happened? You sleeping with me? Or you throwing me out this morning? Because both are fond memories I'd like to hold on to.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, there will be no more memories. I'm not the girl in the bar anymore, and you're not the guy. This can't exist. You get that right?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You took advantage of me, and you wanna forget about it?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I did not -...
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I was drunk, vulnerable, and good-looking, and you took advantage.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I was the one who was drunk, and you are not that good-looking.

Nurse: Nurse Tyler: Oh Joe told me to tell you that McSteamy came looking for you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Meredith: McDreamy came looking for me?
Nurse: Nurse Tyler: No. I'm pretty sure he said McSteamy.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] Even good marriages fail. One minute you're standing on solid ground, the next minute, you're not. And there's always two versions, yours and theirs. Both versions start the same way though; both start with two people falling in love. You think yours is the one that's gonna make it. So it always comes as a shock. The moment you realize it's over. One minute you're standing on solid ground, the next minute, you're not.

Dr. George O'Malley: There need to be some rules.
Dr. Meredith Grey: So, what, we can walk around in our underwear on alternate Tuesdays? Or you could see bras, but not panties? Or are you talking Amish rules? Because if you think you're gonna get Izzie to cover herself...
Dr. George O'Malley: The amount of flesh exposed is not the point. You have to do something, it's your house.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's my mother's house.
Dr. George O'Malley: Meredith!
Dr. Meredith Grey: Do you like Izzie? Is that was this is about? You have a crush on Izzie?
Dr. George O'Malley: Izzie? No! I don't like Izzie. Izzie? No! She's not the one I'm attracted to.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Not the one. So there's a one?
Dr. George O'Malley: Look, there just have to be some rules.

Dr. Cristina Yang: I didn't like teenage girls when I was a teenage girl.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I wore a lot of black.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Ooh.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Had the whole angry pink hair thing going on. Wouldn't have been caught dead at a prom.
Dr. Cristina Yang: My mother made me go. My date barfed on my dress and then tried to feel me up.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] As doctors, we're trained to be skeptical. Because our patients lie to us all the time. The rule is, every patient is a liar, until proven honest.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Why aren't you prepping for rounds and stealing all the good cases?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Well, why aren't you prepping for rounds and stealing all the good cases?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No reason.
Dr. Cristina Yang: No reason?
Dr. Meredith Grey: [voice-over] Lying is bad. Or so we're told. Constantly. From birth. Honesty is the best policy. The truth shall set you free. I chopped down the cherry tree. Whatever.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [chasing after her, after she finds out he's married] Meredith!
Dr. Meredith Grey: Go away.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Just wait. We should discuss this.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Here's a thought: no. Quit following me.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: At least let me explain.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Explain? You know when you should have explained? The night we met in the bar, before any of the rest of it. Yeah, that would have been a good time to discuss this.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I know how you feel.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Do you? Somehow I doubt that. Because if you did, you would shut up, and turn around and go back inside. Because you would realize that I am this close to getting in my car and running you down in the parking lot!

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.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] But as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Cristina] How long have you been sleeping with Shane?
[Cristina looks shocked]
Dr. Meredith Grey: He blushes at an exposed ankle. He saw you in your underwear and didn't bat an eye.
Dr. Cristina Yang: That is none of your business!
Dr. Meredith Grey: You don't have to justify it to me. He's just hooking up with the best teacher to make sure he can get everything he can. It's what you did all through med school and all through intern year. Congratulations. You've become the thing you worship.
Dr. Cristina Yang: And you became the thing we laughed at.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I've heard that it is possible to grow up, I have just never met anyone who's done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselfs, we throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope against all logic against all experience, like children, we never give up hope.

Dr. Meredith Grey: You don't get to call me a whore. When I met you, I thought I had found the person that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done. So all the boys, and all the bars, and all the obvious daddy issues, who cared? Because I was done. You left me. You chose Addison. I'm all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke. You don't get to call me a whore.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I just need something to happen, I need a sign that things are going to change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope! And in the abscence of hope, I need to stay in bed a feel like I'm going to die today.
Dr. Cristina Yang: [throws back blanket] Whatever - everybody has problems. Now get your ass out of bed and get to work. NOW! Move-move-move!
Dr. Cristina Yang: [opens the door to find Izzie and George] We're good to go.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] Okay. Anyone who says you can sleep when you die... Tell them to come talk to me after a few months as an intern. Of course it's not just the job that keeps us up all night. I mean if life's so hard already, why do we bring so much trouble on ourselves. What's up with the need to hit the self-destruct button? Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way because without it... I don't know. Maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying... Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We become family. And even when you really screw up, family is always there. Always on call. Womb to tomb. Ride or die.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] The human body is designed to compensate for loss. It adapts, so it no longer needs the thing it can't have, but sometimes, the loss is too great and the body can't compensate on it's own. That's when surgeons get involved.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Denial. It's not just a river in Egypt. It's a freakin' ocean.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: Meredith, tell me exactly what you did.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I can't tell you.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: We can still fix this, but I need to know what you did.
Dr. Meredith Grey: If I tell you, it'll make it worse.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: It's worse already. Meredith.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Listen, I-I... I love you and I'm sorry but I can't tell you anything.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] When something begins, you generally have no idea how it's going to end. The house you're going to sell becomes your home, the roommates you were forced to take in become your family and the one night stand you were determined to forget becomes the love of your life.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] In order to get a good diagnosis, doctors have to constantly change their perspective. We start by getting the patients point of view, though they don't often have a clue what's going on. So we look at the patient from every possible angle. We rule things out. We uncover new information trying to get to what's actually wrong. We're asking for second opinions hoping we'll see something others might have missed. For the patient, a fresh perspective can mean the difference between living and dying. For the doctor, it can mean your picking a fight with everyone who got there before you.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Just leave me alone.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I just want to make sure you're alright.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No! I'm not alright? Okay? Are you satisfied? I'm not alright. Because you have a wife, and you call me a whore, and our dog died, and now you're looking at me again. Stop looking at me.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I am not looking at you. I am *not* looking at you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You are looking at me. And you watch me. And Finn has plans. And I like Finn. He's perfect for me, and I'm really trying here to be happy, and I feel like I can't breathe. I can't breathe with you looking at me like that so just stop!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You think I want to look at you? That I wouldn't rather be looking at my wife? I'm married. I have responsibilities. She, she doesn't drive me crazy. She doesn't make it impossible for me to feel normal. She doesn't make me sick to my stomach thinking about my veterinarian touching her with his hands. Man, I would give anything to not be looking at you.

[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. Meredith Grey: [coming home to see the huge party going on] Izzie I'm going to kill you.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Callie] What's going on?
Dr. Callie Torres: [as she puts Sofia down] My wife's an S-L-U-T. Sofia and I are spending the night at a hotel.
Dr. Cristina Yang: A... and then what?
Dr. Callie Torres: I... I don't know. Okay, I'll be right back.
[walks off]
Dr. Meredith Grey: We're gonna let her stay at a hotel?

Dr. Meredith Grey: But here's the truth about the truth: It hurts. So we lie.

Dr. Cristina Yang: [to Meredith] Owen and I...
[sighs]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Oh, you know, I don't even know what to call it. Ended it? Broke up? I feel like I'm gonna die.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You always end it, then you start it again.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Yes, but this is different.

Dr. Amelia Shepherd: So, on a scale of lots to nothing, how much would you say you knew about my brother when you guys got married?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm not getting in the middle of that.
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: Why? Did Owen... I knew Owen would say something to you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: See? There's something you know about him.

Dr. Meredith Grey: McSteamy! Woohoo!
Dr. Mark Sloan: McSteamy? Is that what you're calling me?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I don't think you're supposed to know that.
Dr. Mark Sloan: How's my favorite dirty mistress?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm an adulterous whore now...

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] Surgeons have a saying: all bleeding must stop. It's sort of our version of "this too shall pass". Every crisis will eventually come to an end. You either save your patient, or you won't. So, one way or the other, the bleeding will stop. Actually, as far as sayings go, this one's really not all that comforting. All bleeding must stop. Sometimes, it does so at a cost. You lose the arm, remove the organ. You choose to live with the loss because at the end of the day, you'll do whatever you can to stay alive and sometimes, by some miracle, it works. The bleeding stops, but sometimes, now matter how hard you try, it's still not enough.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope. Against all logic. Against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope.

Dr. Maggie Pierce: [to Meredith] You encouraged me to stay. You offered me a home and a family and I accepted. And I wasn't kidding, I will go down swinging for you. It means something to me. I thought I could trust you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You can. From here on out.
Dr. Maggie Pierce: Don't do it again. Don't lie to me again.

Dr. Owen Hunt: One of the surgical residents has a lodged an official complaint with human resources. Three separate complains, actually... directed sexual harassment, quid-pro-quo harassment and hostile work environment.
Dr. Callie Torres: What? Who?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Directed at whom?
Dr. Owen Hunt: H.R. won't release that or the name of the resident.
Dr. Callie Torres: [scoffs] Hostile work environment? Come on.
Dr. Arizona Robbins: Does she have a case, legally?
Dr. Jackson Avery: O... okay. Is there a way that we could... or maybe I could... talk to this person? You know, we could just clear the air before it gets out of proportion.
Dr. Callie Torres: He shouldn't talk to her without legal present.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Well, if she's already filed a complaint...
Dr. Owen Hunt: You're all missing the point! This is not about one person. This is a complaint about this hospital and this teaching program. We are too often letting our personal lives disrupt our work. None of us are guilt-free... myself included. Now, H.R have recommended a clear, zero-tolerance policy.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [as she reads the paper] "Excluding those of pre-existing married couples..."
Dr. Cristina Yang: [as she reads the paper] "Relationships or romantic or sexual nature between superiors and subordinates will not be allowed."
Dr. Owen Hunt: It is restrictive, it is non-negotiable... but it is fair, and better still, it is unambiguous. I urge you all to vote to implement this.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [waking up] Ugh.
[picks up Meredith's bra]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: This is... uh.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [grabs her bra from him] Humiliating, on so many levels. You have to go.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Why don't you just come back down here and we'll pick up where we left off?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, seriously. You have to go. I'm late. Which isn't what you wanna be on your first day of work so...
Dr. Derek Shepherd: So, you actually live here?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yes. Kind of.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh. It's nice. A little dusty. Odd. That's nice. Huh. How do you "kind of" live here?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I moved two weeks ago from Boston. It was my mother's house. I'm selling it.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh, I'm sorry.
Dr. Meredith Grey: For what?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You said "was."
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, my mother's not dead. She's - you know what? We don't have to do The Thing.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh. We can do anything you want.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, the Thing. Exchange the details, pretend we care. Look, I'm gonna go upstairs and take a shower. Okay? And when I get back here, you won't be here so, um... good-bye, um...
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Derek.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Derek. Right, Meredith.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Meredith?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Nice meeting you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Bye Derek.

Joe: You look familiar. You been in here before?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Once. That worked out really well.
Joe: I know that look. It's only one of two things. Either your boss is giving you hell or your boyfriend is. Which is it?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Both. My boyfriend is my boss, which was a problem. But not as big a problem as the fact that my boyfriend has a wife.
Joe: I'll tell you what this one's on the house.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Owen] And what about Richard?
Dr. Owen Hunt: Still critical, but his pressure stabilized once Bailey closed.
Dr. Meredith Grey: So Bailey closed because his vitals tanked or because Catherine Avery was in the gallery screaming?

Dr. Alex Karev: [to Meredith] We need blood, Mer. There's no time to screen, type, or cross. Alright? I need all the o-neg I can get.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay, but wait. Tell me what's going on?
Dr. Alex Karev: And staff. Lab techs, scrub nurses. I need E.T.A.s on when you can get people in here. Page me when you can.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Alex, pick up the baby.
Dr. Alex Karev: Mer, I don't have time.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Alex. Pick up my baby.
[Alex goes over to picks up the baby and starts to hand him to Meredith]
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, the baby is for you so that you can stop freaking out. Now just relax and tell me what's going on.
Dr. Alex Karev: Webber and Brooks are down. They were electrocuted. It's bad, but we're... we're... we're dealing with it. I just need you to get on the phone and help us get those supplies, okay?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay. Okay.
Dr. Alex Karev: Here.
[hands Meredith the baby]
Dr. Alex Karev: Your turn not to freak out.

[Watching a pornographic video]
Dr. Cristina Yang: That does NOT look comfortable.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Trust me, it's not.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I can't think of a single reason why I should be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose... there are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game, and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit but here's the thing, I love the playing field.

Dr. Alex Karev: [to Meredith] Do you want anything, you know... like a sandwich or a... or a blanket?
[puts a pillow behind Meredith's back]
Dr. Meredith Grey: All right, all right. I'm good. I'm good. Sit down, sit down. I just spent 6 weeks in a bed unable to speak. When that you happens, you see things. There's a lot of things that people don't say to each other that they should just say, so I need you to hear me when I say this. I know I've needed you a lot lately, but I also know and I have known for a long time that Jo loves you. "Post-it-on-the-wall loves you." Don't ignore that. You can have more than one person. I used to think you couldn't, but now I know, I mean, turns out I have a whole damn village. So, you don't have to worry about me. Go be with Jo. I'll be fine. I'm okay.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good and twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad and no pain is better, but the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something, and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: So... it is intense... this thing I have for... ferryboats, I mean.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I am so taking the stairs this time
[she continues walking]
Dr. Meredith Grey: .
Dr. Derek Shepherd: No self control. It is sad, really
[he nods and gets into the elevator]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: .

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.

Dr. Cristina Yang: Big day! Biggest day of your life!
Dr. Meredith Grey: Don't do that! Don't do the peppy maid of honor thing. It's creepy.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Just go to sleep.
Katie: I can't sleep, my head feels full.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's called thinking. Go with it.

Dr. Callie Torres: [to Meredith while holding baby Bailey] I was just thinking about when Richard caught me living in the limb room. I was a resident. Before George. Anyway... I was in there one night, and he... Richard walked in on me dancing in my underwear.
[she and Meredith chuckle]
Dr. Callie Torres: I was so embarrassed. I mean... he was the chief.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Are you okay?
Dr. Callie Torres: No. No, I'm... No, I don't dance in my underwear anymore.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Karev] I'm talking to you. In short, mono-syllabic sentences laced with disdain and contempt.

Dr. Meredith Grey: When you get sick, starts with on single bacteria. Pretty soon, the intruder duplicates... Becomes two. Then those two become four, and those four become eight. Then, before your body knows it... it's under attack. It's an invasion. The question for a doctor is: once the invaders have landed, once they've taken over your body... How the hell do you get rid of them?

Katie: My head is full.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's called thinking. Go with it.

Dr. Alex Karev: [Grey and Karev perform surgery without their attending, Dr. Stark and are now sitting in a conference room awaiting the consequences] We did what we were trained to do.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Remember the first day? The chief said only two of us would make it.
Dr. Meredith Grey,11145: [speaks in unison] I thought it'd be me and Cristina.
Dr. Alex Karev: How are we the last two standing?

Dr. Meredith Grey: Every surgeon has a shadow. And the only way to get rid of a shadow is to turn off the light. To stop running from the darkness, and face what you fear. Head on.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] There's this Bible story. Two women both claim to be the mother of the same child. King Solomon had to choose. Two mothers, only one gets the kid. Solomon came up with a plan. He proposed a 50/50 split. Literally. He offered to chop the kid in half. It all ends if one mom relinquishes her custody, or else they both stand their ground, and the kid gets torn apart. If you're wondering how the Solomon story ends, spoiler alert. The true mom would rather give her baby up than have it ripped in two, but what happens when there are two true mothers? That's a no win situation. That is an entirely different story.

Dr. Meredith Grey: My college campus has a magic statue... it's a long standing tradition to rub its nose for luck. My freshman roommate really believed in the statue's power and insisted on visiting it to rub its nose before every exam. Studying might of been a better idea. She flunked out sophomore year, but the fact is we all have little superstitious things that we all do. If it's not believing in magic statues, it's avoiding sidewalk cracks, or always putting on our left shoe first. Knock on wood, step on a crack... brake your mother's back. The last thing you want to do is offend the Gods.

Dr. Meredith Grey: All right, details. You're pregnant? What are you gonna do?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Well, you know what happens to pregnant interns. I'm not switching to vagina squad or spending my life popping zits. I'm too talented, surgery's my life.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Which begs the question, who are you sleeping with?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Just a guy.
Dr. Meredith Grey: That's all I get? You can't just bring something like this up and expect me to drop it.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Well, watch me.

[Meredith gets out of the car, is walking, in the rain, towards the hospital, sees Derek]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Stop.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: What?
Dr. Meredith Grey: You're stalking me. Stop it.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Did we not communicate last night?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yes.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Did you hear what I was saying?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Your wife screwed your best friend.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: And then, from that point on, she no longer existed to me anymore.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You had marital amnesia.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: No. Come o... I bared my soul to you last night.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's not enough.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: How can that not be enough?
Dr. Meredith Grey: When you waited two months, to tell me, and I had to find out by her showing up, all leggy and fabulous, and telling me herself, you pulled the plug. I'm a sink with an open drain. Anything you say, runs right out. There is no enough.
[goes inside, leaving Derek standing outside the hospital entrance]
Dr. George O'Malley: She probably could've picked a better metaphor.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Give her a break, she has a hangover.
[George and Izzie walk past Derek into the hospital]

Dr. Meredith Grey: At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it's not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [after Derek chooses Webber to be his best man in the wedding] When are you gonna let go of the grudge you have against the Chief?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Derek, the man had an affair with my mother, broke up my parents' marriage and basically destroyed my childhood. Meanwhile, you've been best friends with Mark for 20 years and you're willing to throw all that away over nothing. So, don't talk to me about holding grudges. I'll get over mine when you get over yours.

Dr. Cristina Yang: What are you doing?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Sitting here with my penis.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: Long day.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Somewhere out there is a steak with your name on it and maybe a bottle of wine.
Dr. Meredith Grey: This is why I keep you around
Dr. Derek Shepherd: So, we need to talk.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Wine first, talk later
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You trying to, uh, get me drunk so you can take advantage of me?
Dr. Meredith Grey: [laughing] I think I like this rules thing.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Me too

Dr. Mark Sloan: The guys pretty much a goner right?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Sensitivity, I like that in a stranger. Are you new here?
Dr. Meredith Grey,11149: Visiting. Confounded by all the rain and it's only my first day in town.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You get used to it.
Dr. Mark Sloan: Makes me wanna stay in bed all day.
Dr. Meredith Grey: We just met and already you're talking about bed. Not very subtle.
Dr. Mark Sloan: Subtle's never been my strong suit. So, do you ever go out with co-workers?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I, um, make it a rule not to.
Dr. Mark Sloan: Then I am so glad that I don't work here.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Are you hitting on me? In a hospital?
Dr. Mark Sloan: Would that be wrong?
Dr. Meredith Grey: [Introducing herself] Meredith.
[Derek slugs him]
Dr. Meredith Grey: What the hell was that?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: It's Mark.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We're all damaged it seems. Some of us more than others. We carry the damage with us from childhood. Then, as grown-ups, we give as good as we get. Ultimately, we all do damage. And then... we set about the business of fixing... whatever we can.

Dr. Meredith Grey: You nervous?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I have my ego to keep me warm.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I can take care of myself. I got myself into this mess and I...
Dr. Derek Shepherd: And you'll get yourself out?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I don't... know that yet

Dr. Meredith Grey: We know, he cheated on you! That's why we let you turn the living room into Santa's freaking Village.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: What?
Dr. Meredith Grey: We're not big on holidays. You know that. We're trying to be supportive because you're having a hard time. But right now, Alex, he's having a harder time.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Why does everyone care what kind of time Alex is having?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Because he's dirty Uncle Sal.
[They all look at her strangely]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Sorry?
Dr. George O'Malley: You lost me.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [Thinking they'll catch on...] Dirty Uncle Sal. Who embarrasses everyone at family reunions, and who can't be left alone with the teenage girls, but you invite him to the picnic anyway.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Sorry, what?
Dr. George O'Malley: Still lost.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I have a mother who doesn't recognize me. As far as family goes, this hospital, you guys are it. So, I know you're pissed at Alex, but, maybe you could try to help him anyway. Sort of like the spirit of this holiday you keep shoving down everybody's throats.
[Izzie and Meredith walk off in opposite directions]
Dr. Cristina Yang: [Disdainfully, to George] You...
[Turns away with the tree]
Dr. George O'Malley: What?
Dr. Cristina Yang: "Boob"?

Dr. George O'Malley: [to Pierce, Megan and Steve] This is year one of your residency. You turn on each other now, you're not gonna make it.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay, here's what's gonna happen. All of you are going to go and find the sense that the Good Lord gave you and never behave like this within the four walls of this hospital ever again. You are doctors. Pierce, get an ice pack and put it on that oozing, disgusting, mess of an eye. And Steve, go to the pit and get that unsanitary, bloody hand x-rayed and stitched. And Megan, you should go to OB because yes, you are pregnant.
Dr. George O'Malley: [as he and Meredith are walking out] That was very Bailey.

Dr. Meredith Grey: You know, we don't have to do the thing.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh, we can do anything you want.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, the thing! Exchange the details, pretend we care.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We are sooooo going to hell. Burke's sending us straight to hell.
Dr. Cristina Yang: On an express train.

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.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm calling post-it. Zola and Bailey and tumors on the wall and ferry boat scrub caps.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: So we're kissing but we're not dating?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I knew that was going to come up.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Don't get me wrong: I like the kissing. I'm all for the kissing. More kissing, I say.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I have no idea what that was about.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Is it going to happen again? Let me know next time. I'll bring breath mints. Put a condom in my wallet.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Just stop it right now.

Dr. Shane Ross: It looks like the spleen is the source of the bleeding.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay, so mobilize the spleen, divide it by its ligamentous attachments...
Dr. Shane Ross: I can't. I've never done it.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You can. You've seen me do it. Mobilize, assess the injury, and stop the hemorrhage.
Dr. Shane Ross: Okay. Okay. I need metz and lap pads, please. And follow me with suction.
Dr. Meredith Grey: That's right, Ross. That's it. You've got this. This is your O.R. You don't need my help.
Dr. Shane Ross: Yes, I do.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, you don't, because I'm gonna lose consciousness in a few seconds and you're gonna be on your own. And you're not gonna freak out. And Shane, if I arrest for more than nine minutes, let me go. Don't revive me. I do not want to be a vegetable. Do you understand me? Shane, I need you to respond. I need to know you understand me. Dr. Ross, your superior... is asking you to respond...
Dr. Shane Ross: Yes, Dr. Grey.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Ross, you can... you can do this. And tell Derek... I know the baby's name. It's...
[passes out]

Dr. Meredith Grey: I actually said "pick me". Right? I did? "Pick me"?
Joe: I think it's romantic.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's not romantic, Joe. It's horrifying. Horror-movie horrifying. Carrie at the prom with the pig's blood, horrifying!
Joe: Ok, fine, it's horrifying. But Carrie took out an entire senior class as revenge. I gotta say, I like that in a girl.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I said PICK ME!

Dr. Meredith Grey: We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves. To other people. The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we have done. Or that's been done to us. Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise. Sometimes we think we can fix the damage. And sometimes the damage is something we can't even see.

Dr. Meredith Grey: They're everywhere. All the time. Izzie's all perky and George does this thing where he's helpful and considerate. They share food, and they say things, and they move things, and they breathe. Ugh, they're, like, happy.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Kick them out.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I can't kick them out, they just moved in. I asked them to move in.
Dr. Cristina Yang: So what, you're just going to repress everything in some deep, dark, twisted place until one day you snap and you kill them?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yep
Dr. Cristina Yang: That's why we are friends

Dr. Meredith Grey: You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.

Dr. Meredith Grey: There's something to be said about the glass half full. About knowing when to say when. I think it's a floating line, a barometer of need and desire. It's entirely up to the individual and depends on what's being poured. Sometimes all we want is a taste. Other times there's no such thing as enough... The glass is bottomless and all we want is more.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I had one great love in my life and he died.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Sometimes doing something is worse than doing nothing.

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. Derek Shepherd: [to Meredith] Are you leaving?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, I didn't get fired. I know that's disappointing to you.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: My trial is about to disappear. You really wanna act like I'm the bad guy here?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, I don't.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I know the fact that it is Adele changes things for Richard, but it doesn't for me.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, I understand that.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You couldn't possibly understand that. If you were focused on the millions of people with Alzheimer's whose lives could've been different, or would've been better because of this drug, there's no way in hell you would've pulled this stunt. How is it that you don't know the difference between right and wrong?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Because I don't think that things are simply right or wrong. Things are more complicated than that. This was more complicated than that. It's complicated that it was Adele and Richard. It's complicated that we have a drug in a box that could help her. There's nothing simple about that. I am very sorry that I messed everything up, but I would do it again.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I don't know how to raise a child with someone who doesn't understand that there's a... right and wrong in the world.
Dr. Meredith Grey: So, now I'm gonna be a bad mother. That's where we're going with this?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You've been saying it for weeks. Maybe you're right.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I just... I just need some time to think. Some space.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Zola] Okay, so, this is the house. There's another house where you're gonna have your own room. But that, right now, is just wood and no walls, so we're gonna stay here for awhile. Derek? Okay. He might be AWOL he's had a bad day. He's a little... pissed off right now. Okay, we're gonna be fine.
[walking upstairs]
Dr. Meredith Grey: So we had a big plan if this ever worked out. We were gonna have a lullaby from Malawi to make everything feel homey to you. To be honest, right now, I can't even think of an American lullaby.
[opens the attic door, calls out]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Lexie? You know, a lot of people live here and it gets kinda crazy sometimes and it's usually not this quiet. Alex?
[opens the door to Alex's room and sees that everything is gone]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay, we're gonna be okay. You and I, we're a team, right? We're tough. We have that in common. I am very glad you're here. I didn't think your first day would be quite like this, but I'm gonna get it together, and we're gonna figure it out.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I have a feeling...
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I get those!
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yeah!
Dr. Meredith Grey: And?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: If you wait long enough, it'll pass.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Promise?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I promise.
[Meredith walks away and Derek stands there deep in thought]
Dr. Addison Shepherd: Hey! What are you doing?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Waiting for it to pass...

Dr. Meredith Grey: Now I understand the sensitivty training.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Yeah, no fat jokes.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Yang, you're off the case.
Dr. Cristina Yang: I said no fat jo...
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Goodbye

Dr. Meredith Grey: I mean why bother even having a kid when you're only going to see it on weekends and holidays? You might as well get a cat.
Dr. George O'Malley: I talked to Burke. I think he's fine.
Dr. Cristina Yang: You did what?
Dr. Meredith Grey: What's wrong with Burke?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Nothing's wrong with anybody.
Dr. George O'Malley: Did you know he let her decanulate a heart this morning?
Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Christina] you decanulated a heart this morning? by yourself? Bitch!
Dr. Cristina Yang: No... not by myself.
Dr. George O'Malley: Now she's lying about it!
Dr. Alex Karev: Yang decanulated a heart, why is Alex not surprised?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Izzie isn't either. Last week Izzie was digging through crap this week she's fondling man boobs.
[in sing-tone voice]
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: No decanulating hearts for Izzie.
Dr. George O'Malley: [to Christina] why aren't you bragging about decanulating the heart?
Dr. Cristina Yang: I didn't decanulate the heart.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Izzie and Alex do not believe you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay, what are you two doing?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Izzie and Alex have a patient who speaks about himself in the third person.
Dr. Alex Karev: They thought it was kind of annoying at first, but now they kind of like it.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Good! Is it going to stop soon?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Wow what happened? This morning you were all bright and shiny asking to be kicked in the face.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I am. I'm bright. I'm shiny.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Yeah.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Izzie thinks this whole bright and shiny thing is getting old.
Dr. Alex Karev: Alex agrees.

Dr. Alex Karev: It's crap. This is crap! You just can't go messing with people's heads like that! Even if she freezes the embryos, do you think... Do you think we'll get a chance to use them? Do you think she'll still be here? Do you think she'll survive all this? Do you think... I think... She told me, she told me she was seeing a ghost, okay? And I'm so used to all the crazy chicks in my life that I didn't even... I'm a doctor. A doctor! And I didn't even think... and now she's... this is wrong. This isn't how it's supposed to happen.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I know.
Dr. Alex Karev: It's crap!
Dr. Meredith Grey: I know.
Dr. Alex Karev: I hate this!
Dr. Meredith Grey: I know.
Dr. Alex Karev: This isn't... this isn't how we were supposed... this isn't how I want to do this. This isn't how Izzie and I were supposed to make a baby.

Dr. Meredith Grey: The dad made it.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: The mom didn't.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I hate it when it's babies.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Me too.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Fresh starts. Thanks to the calendar, they happen every year. Just set your watch to January. Our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year bringing on the great tradition of new year's resolutions. Put your past behind you and start over. It's hard to resist the chance of a new beginning, a chance to put the problems of last year to bed.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We can't help ourselves, we see a line we want to cross it. Maybe it's the thrill of trading the familiar for the unfamiliar, a sort of personal dare, only problem is, once you have crossed it's almost impossible to go back. But if you do manage to make it back across that line, you find safety in numbers.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [to Meredith] I didn't think you wanted to wear a wedding dress.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I don't! How does he even know we're engaged?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Richard's my friend. He's not the one that ordered the dress. If you don't wanna wear a wedding dress, talk to Izzie.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, yeah! As the chemo drips into her cancer-y arm, and she looks at me with those cancer-y eyes, those cancer-y wedding loving eyes...
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Be strong.
Dr. Meredith Grey: We will have bridesmaids in pink taffeta! And you will be wearing a top hat and a morning coat! And somebody will be singing wind beneath my fricking wings!

Finn: I don't know what happened last night. Between you and Derek.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Finn...
Finn: And I don't wanna know, alright, we never said that we were exclusive.
Dr. Meredith Grey: But you have plans.
Finn: Yeah. Well I didn't say I wasn't pissed off. I said we weren't exclusive. That's all I wanted to say. Oh and, uh, and this. I know you think you're scary and damaged...
Dr. Meredith Grey: Dark and twisty.
Finn: It makes you feel like you don't deserve good things. But you do. And Derek - he's bad for you. But me - I'm a good thing. And if there's a race, if there is a ring, my hat is in.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Derek said the sand isn't real.
Dr. George O'Malley: Yeah, no. Neither is the ocean. It IS nice, though. I wouldn't want to leave either.
Dr. Meredith Grey: The beach?
Dr. George O'Malley: Your kids.
[chuckles]
Dr. George O'Malley: Got great kids.
Dr. Meredith Grey: They're the best. You didn't meet them.
Dr. George O'Malley: I check in sometimes.
Dr. Meredith Grey: How did you get older?
Dr. George O'Malley: Sand isn't real, the ocean isn't real. The body... it's not real. Maybe it's just more peaceful for you to imagine me older?
Dr. Meredith Grey: You sound like a fortune cookie.
[Both laugh]

Dr. Meredith Grey: You're my teacher's teacher. And my teacher.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I'm your sister. I'm your daughter.

Paul: [to Meredith] Ma'am? I thought that if this was a good time, I'd take a moment to explain how this all works.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Where are the papers?
Paul: Mrs. Shepherd, there's some things you need to know... some things we need to discuss. Difficult things.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm a doctor. Dr. Grey. I'm a surgeon just like my husband was. I know how this works. You've waited the requisite number of hours and now you can officially declare him dead. Normally, you'd talk to me about organ donation, but by the looks of his chart, there's not much left that works to donate. So, the ICU needs a bed. Those must be the papers, the papers you want me to sign to decide what to do with my husband now that he's dead, but not really dead. Do we ship him off to a long term care facility and cross our fingers and hope for fairy tales and magic? Or do I pull the pus? And stop all curative intervention? Discontinue all routine monitoring, remove all the catheters, drains, and tubes, end any and all treatments that might provide comfort to the patient. Terminate all... life-sustaining measures... and behave as any sane doctor would behave. Does that about cover it, doctor?
[voice breaking]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Is that what you want to talk to me about while I sit here with my sleeping children? You want to talk about killing my husband? Give me the papers.
Paul: Ma'am...
Dr. Meredith Grey: Give me the papers!

Dr. Cristina Yang: [they all see the Nazi] That's the Nazi?
Dr. George O'Malley: I thought the Nazi would be a man.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I thought the Nazi would be... the Nazi.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [Izzie walks up behind them] Maybe it's professional jealousy. Maybe she's brilliant and they call her a Nazi because they're jealous. Maybe she's nice.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Let me guess - you're the model.
[Izzie gives her an evil look]
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [to the Nazi] Hi, I'm Isobel Stevens, but everyone just calls me Izzie.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change.

Dr. Jackson Avery: Grey? About your portal vein project... do you really need lab staff five days a week?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yes. Why?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: The foundation is trimming research.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. Jackson Avery: No no no, they're just looking...
Dr. Meredith Grey: The hell they are! The Harper Avery Foundation doesn't make any decisions about this hospital. If there's one thing the Harper Avery Foundation can't do well, it's decide who should get something!
Dr. Jackson Avery: Okay, I am just...
Dr. Meredith Grey: Tell them that if they cut my funding, I cut their tires. Christina Yang deserved that award, not Dr. Nobody Sucksalot from Hopkins. And tell them in short sentences with little, tiny words because they are boneheads!

Dr. Owen Hunt: Okay, we should get started. Um, Bailey, we have some board business that we need to disc...
Dr. Miranda Bailey: [while holding Meredith's baby] I'm not going anywhere. Me and this baby got Bailey business to discuss. Don't we? Yes, Mr. Derek Bailey Shepherd. Yes, we do.
Dr. Arizona Robbins: What does Zola think of him?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, she wants to take him into daycare for show and tell.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Where's Richard?
Dr. Owen Hunt: I paged all the board members.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Well, Avery should be here, too.
Dr. Owen Hunt: Yeah, well, he was being a hero last night. He dislocated his shoulder saving a kid from a bus crash.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What bus crash?
Dr. Cristina Yang: She had a baby. She doesn't know things.
Dr. Meredith Grey: So tell me.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: A church was evacuating some people and their bus overturned.
Dr. Owen Hunt: The good news is, everyone survived and there are no major injuries.
Dr. Arizona Robbins: And the bad news?
Dr. Owen Hunt: Everything else. The blood bank is flooded and the E.R. looks like it was ransacked.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: So we need to close the E.R.?
Dr. Owen Hunt: We are dangerously low on meds. Personnel can't make it in due to the flooding.
Dr. Cristina Yang: So we need to close the E.R.
Dr. Arizona Robbins: Can we do that?
Dr. Owen Hunt: You are the board. I am telling you that E.R. cannot open today.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Well, what do we need? I can try to coordinate with our suppliers.
[Arizona gives her a look]
Dr. Meredith Grey: I had a baby, I'm not dead.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Ross, what is taking so long?
Dr. Shane Ross: It's fine. It's just... it won't stop bleeding.
Dr. Heather Brooks: Ooh. Oh, god. That's... That's a lot of blood.
Dr. Meredith Grey: How much blood?
Dr. Shane Ross: I... I don't know. It's not coming from your uterus.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Brooks, shine a light over here. I feel something on my hand.
[Heather shines the light]
Dr. Meredith Grey: There's blood coming out around my I.V. I'm in D.I.C. I need F.F.P packed red blood cells, and platelets. I had a fall.
Dr. Shane Ross: What?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yesterday, I... I fell down the stairs. I might have injured something in my abdomen.
Dr. Shane Ross: Did you feel any pain?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I've been in labor.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I got another one for you.
[hands a chart to Dr. Bailey]
Dr. Miranda Bailey: He tried to gift wrap a 70-inch TV for his wife?
Dr. George O'Malley: Hernia?
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Strangulated. Pretty ugly.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: And you just know the wife hates TV.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: It's not the chase.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You and me. It is not the thrill of the chase. It's not a game. It's... it's your tiny ineffectual fists. And your hair.
Dr. Meredith Grey: My hair?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: It smells good. And you're very, very ballsy. It keeps me in line.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm still not going out with you.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You say that now...

Dr. George O'Malley: You don't understand. Me - gonads! You - ovaries!
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Oh, that reminds me. We are out of tampons.
Dr. George O'Malley: You're parading through the bathroom in your underwear, when I'm naked in the shower!
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Will you add it to your list, please?
Dr. George O'Malley: What?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Tampons!
Dr. Meredith Grey: To the list. It's your turn.
Dr. George O'Malley: I am a man! I don't buy girl products. I don't want you walking in while I'm in the shower. And I don't wanna see you in your underwear!
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: It doesn't bother me, okay? Look at me in my underwear, George. Take your time, it's no big deal.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

Dr. Cristina Yang: Arizona is in the lobby screaming at nurses.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Why?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Cause she has no idea where Callie is... or the baby.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, well, you need to tell her they're at my house.
[Cristina scoffs]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Callie's not a battered woman. We're not harboring her until he gets a restraining order. She just wants some space.
Dr. Cristina Yang: But you don't think that Arizona's called her like, 300 times? If Callie wanted her to know where she was... she'd have told her.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You think that it's okay that Arizona doesn't know where her baby is? She's Sofia's mom, too.
Dr. Cristina Yang: They're both our friends. You know, we shouldn't take sides.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's not taking sides to tell Arizona where her kid is.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Oh, you think that's how it's gonna go? Mnnh-mnnh.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] I had this badass professor in med school. She seemed invincible. Then one day, she needed her gallbladder out. And the surgery killed her. Her platelets stopped clotting. She bled out on the table. Everything that could've gone wrong, did go wrong. Surgeons have a name for it. We call it a perfect storm. Funny. Never thought it would happen to me.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Let's play a game of whose life sucks the most. I'll win. I always win.
Dr. Cristina Yang: You don't wanna play with me.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, I do. I'll even go first. Derek's married.
[George spits his beer out]
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: George, beer is dripping from your nostrils.
[He walks off]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Told ya I'd win.
Dr. Cristina Yang: No, you don't win.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you hear me? I said Derek is married, as in pig-headed, adulterous, liar, married. Nothing you could say could top that.
Dr. Cristina Yang: I'm pregnant. I win.
[Joe collapses]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Ok, maybe Joe wins.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you choose me for the surgery because I slept with you?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yes.
[Meredith gives him a look]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I'm kidding.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Claire] You don't know this yet, but life isn't supposed to be like this. It's not supposed to be this hard.

Dr. Cristina Yang: What are you doing?
Bomb: I thought Dr. Burke told you to leave.
Dr. Meredith Grey: We're moving to an OR further away from the oxygen line... you know, in case we blow up.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] Failure is inevitable. Unavoidable. But failure should never get the last word. You have to hold on to want you want. You have to not take no for an answer, and take what's coming to you. Never give in. Never give up. Stand up and take it.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I think, maybe I did something... to the heart, when I was holding it. I nodded off a little. Squeezed it.
Dr. George O'Malley: The heart's a tough muscle; it can take a squeeze or two.

Dr. Meredith Grey: What was I to you? The girl you screwed to get over being screwed?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You were like coming up for fresh air. It's like I was drowning and you saved me. It's all I know.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's not good enough.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Izzie] Of course, now you know every time he gets a rise, he'll be thinking of you.

Dr. Cristina Yang: [Meredith has just finished a surgery that Cristina wanted to perform] We don't have to do that thing, where you know, I say something, then you say something, and somebody cries, and there's like a moment...
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yuck.
Dr. Cristina Yang: You should get some sleep. You look like crap.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I look better than you.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Not possible.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Karev] So, they're probably gonna fire me. Are you happy?
Dr. Alex Karev: Oh, come on. They're not gonna...
Dr. Meredith Grey: I want your crap out of my house by the end of the day.

Dr. Meredith Grey: We could buy a house.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: We have a house.
Dr. Meredith Grey: We could buy another house.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: We could buy five houses.
Dr. Cristina Yang: We could buy five houses with yards the size of football fields.
Dr. Meredith Grey: We could by the team to play on the fields.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Who would play against them?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Well, we would buy another team...
Dr. Alex Karev: I should have been on that damn plane!

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes, but one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself, the future is never the way we imagined it.

[discussing "Judy Dolls", after they learn that a patient's bowel obstruction was caused after he swallowed the heads of ten Judy Dolls]
Dr. Cristina Yang: My mother used to buy me Judy dolls. Manhattan Judy, Surfer Judy, Disco Judy.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I always wanted one.
Dr. Cristina Yang: I dissected them. Cut off their arms and shaved their heads.
Dr. Alex Karev: Sounds like there's a sick and twisted story behind this.
Dr. Cristina Yang: They're sexist, distorted, devil toys that create unrealistic image-expectations catering to the porn-driven minds of men.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: You swallow a bitter pill this morning, Yang? They're dolls.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] When we're heading towards an outcome that's too horrible to face, that's when we go looking for a second opinion. Sometimes, the answer we get just confirms our worst fears but sometimes, it can shed new light on the problem. Make you see it in a whole new way. After all the opinions have been heard and every point of view has been considered, you finally find what you were after, the truth. But the truth isn't where it ends. That's just where you begin again with a whole new set of questions.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Look, I can't! No, I can't. This is crazy. Burke, you're gonna go. You go. Both of you should go.
Dr. Preston Burke: Nobody's dying today, Grey.
Bomb: Meredith, I want you to look at me. Look at me. I know this is bad. And I know that I'm this ass whose been yelling at you all day. So you pretend that I'm not; you pretend that I'm someone you like, whatever you need. But you need to listen to me.

Dr. Cristina Yang: It kills you, doesn't it?
Dr. Alex Karev: What?
Dr. Cristina Yang: That two women caught the harvest.
Dr. Alex Karev: No, it kills me that anybody got the harvest but me. Boobs do not factor into this equation. Unless, uh, you want to show me yours.
[Meredith and Cristina look at each other]
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm going to become a lesbian.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Me too.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: [running after Meredith] Merideth!
Dr. Meredith Grey: Leave me alone!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Merideth!
Dr. Meredith Grey: [runs into an exam room while Derek follows] Just leave me alone.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I just want to make sure you're alright.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No! I'm not alright. Okay? Are you satisfied? I'm not alright! Because you have a wife and you call me a whore. And our dog died. And now you're looking at me. Stop looking at me!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I'm not looking at you. I am not looking at you!
Dr. Meredith Grey: You are looking at me, and you watch me! And Finn has plans, and I like Finn. He's perfect for me, and I'm really trying here to be happy, and I can't breathe! I can't breathe with you looking at me like that, so just stop!
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Do you think I want to look at you? That I wouldn't rather be looking at my wife? I'm married, I have responsibilities! She doesn't drive me crazy! She doesn't make it impossible for me to feel normal! She doesn't make me sick to my stomach thinking about my veterinarian touching her with his hands! Oh, man, I would give anything not to be looking at you.

Meredith: In life only one thing is certain, besides death and taxes... No matter how hard we try, No matter how good our intentions, We are going to make mistakes. We are going to hurt people. We are going to get hurt. And if you're ever going to recover, There's only one thing to say. Forgive and forget. That's what they say. It's good advice, but it's not very practical. When someone hurts us, We want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, We want to be right. Without forgiveness, nothing is ever settled. Hurts never heal. And the most we can hope for... Is to forget.

Dr. Richard Webber: [to Meredith] I can see that you're angry with me and may be angry with your mother.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Don't do that! I'm not your friend and I am not your family. You don't get to call me into your office on personal business and you don't get to speak to me this way right now. It's an abuse of power. I'm a resident. I work for you. You have to speak to me like I'm a resident and for the record, Chief, somebody had to stand up for that little girl, and I make no apologies for that.
Dr. Richard Webber: You wanna just be a resident? Fine. Alright then. That woman is a victim of domestic violence. This hospital is supposed to be a safe place for her to come and tell her story. And as her doctors, it is our job to help her. You did not do your job. Instead, you further battered a battered woman.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What about the little girl?
Dr. Richard Webber: Dr. Grey! You will stay away from that child. You will stay away from that family. You will not come within 100 feet of them. And if you do, you will be suspended from this hospital pending reevaluation of your emotional and mental fitness for residency.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Addison yelling at you in front of a patient?
Dr. Alex Karev: She didn't exactly yell.
[pause]
Dr. Alex Karev: Fine, she's Satan's whore.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Thank you. So, did you yell back?
Dr. Alex Karev: No
Dr. Meredith Grey: Dude, you lost your mojo.
Dr. Alex Karev: Exuse me?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I was trying to talk boy.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] Defeat isn't an option. Not for surgeons. We don't back away from the table till the last breaths long gone. Terminal's a challenge. Life threatening's what gets us out of bed in the morning. We're not easily intimidated. We don't flinch, we don't back down, and we certainly don't surrender. Not at work anyway.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I didn't know I didn't want to. You were there. And you were saying all these perfect things and I was sad. And so I thought maybe. Maybe I've just been overlooking what's been in front of me. And if I just give it a chance because you're George and you're so great... I didn't know I didn't want to until... I knew I didn't want to.

Dr. Meredith Grey: In hospitals they say you know, you know when you're going to die. Some doctors say it's a look patients get in their eyes, some say there's a scent - a smell - of death. Some think there's just some kind of 6th sense when the great beyond is heading for you, you feel it coming. Whatever it is, it's creepy because if you know, what do you do about it? Forget about the fact that you're scared out of your mind: if you knew this was your last day on earth, how would you want to spend it?

Dr. Derek Shepherd: Get out of here, Meredith before he shoots you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Do not die. Do you understand? I can't live without you. If you die, I die.
Dr. Cristina Yang: I called the police.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, good, they're coming.
Dr. Cristina Yang: M... Mer... Mer, they're not gonna get here. They're not coming for us. They're not gonna get here in time. Oh, God... Mer, w-what are we gonna do?
Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Derek] I picked you! I choose you. You don't die on me!
Dr. Cristina Yang: Derek needs surgery. What do we do?
Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Derek] You stay awake. Stay awake! Derek! Derek, stay awake!

Dr. Meredith Grey: There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what the fates hand you. And like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope. Then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. They feed you, and clothe you, and take care of you, until you're ready to go out into the world and find your tribe.

Dr. Arizona Robbins: [to Meredith] What's going on with the baby?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, nothing. He's fine. They have him in the nursery.
Dr. Arizona Robbins: Oh, oh. I thought... I thought something happened.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, no. I paged you because I wanted to let you know that Callie and Sofia are going to stay at my place tonight. I think she just needs some space. She needs to cool off and... I know you're not gonna go run over there or anything, but I thought that you would just like to know that she and the baby are...
[Arizona turns and walks out]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Arizona. Arizona?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Is "I told you so" inappropriate?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Shut it.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I want facts, and until I get them, my pants are staying on.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Or you could just roll with it, be flexible. See what happens.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm not flexible.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Now there I disagree.

Dr. Meredith Grey: In surgery there is a red line on the floor that marks the point where the hospital goes from being accessible to being off limits to all but a special few. Crossing the line unauthorized is not tolerated. In general, lines are there for a reason, for safety, for security, for clarity. If you choose to cross the line, you pretty much choose to do so at your own risk. So why is it that the bigger the line, the greater the temptation to cross it?

[Meredith's one-night-stand from the previous night has showed up at Seattle Grace with an erection that won't go away]
[George enters the stairwell. Going up the stairs, he finds Meredith sitting on the stairs by herself]
Dr. George O'Malley: So, how do you break a guy's penis?
Dr. Meredith Grey: You know about Steve too?

Dr. Meredith Grey: Why bother even having a kid if you're only going to see it on weekends and holidays. You might as well just get a cat.
Dr. George O'Malley: I talked to Dr. Burke, I think he's fine.
Dr. Cristina Yang: You did what?
Dr. Meredith Grey: What's wrong with Burke?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Nothing's wrong with anybody.
Dr. George O'Malley: You know he let her decanulate a heart this morning?
Dr. Meredith Grey: You decanulated a heart this morning? By yourself? B****!
Dr. Cristina Yang: No, not by myself.
Dr. George O'Malley: Now she's lying about it.
Dr. Alex Karev: Yang decanulated a heart. Why is Alex not surprised?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Izzie isn't either. Last week, Izzie was digging through crap, this week she's fondling man boobs. No decanulating hearts for Izzie!
Dr. George O'Malley: Why aren't you bragging about decanulating the heart?
Dr. Cristina Yang: I didn't decanulate the heart
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Izzie and Alex do not believe you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay, what are you two doing?
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: [giggles] Izzie and Alex have a patient who speaks about himself in the third person.
Dr. Alex Karev: They thought it was annoying at first, but now they kinda like it
Dr. Meredith Grey: Good, is it gonna stop soon?
Dr. Cristina Yang: What happened? This morning you were all bright and shiny, asking to be kicked in the face
Dr. Meredith Grey: I am. I'm bright. I'm shiny.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Yeah.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Izzie thinks that this whole "Bright and Shiny" thing is getting old.
Dr. Alex Karev: Alex agrees.

Dr. George O'Malley: [Following Izzie up a staircase] Izzie, would you, wait?
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I say I like the guy, and you can't stop hating him.
Dr. George O'Malley: Izzie...
[Still following her through the hospital]
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Then as soon as he screws me over, you're his new best friend.
Dr. George O'Malley: Izzie. He failed his boards. This is important.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: He cheated on me!
[George & Izzie run into Meredith]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Busted?
Dr. George O'Malley: Yeah, busted.
Dr. Meredith Grey: His exam is tomorrow.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: You're in on this too? He cheated on me! God!
Dr. Cristina Yang: [Carrying a small Christmas tree out of a patient's room] Told you she'd find out.
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Oh, of course you're in on it.
Dr. George O'Malley: She let him touch her boobs!
[Cristina hits George with the tree]
Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: He cheated on me with George's skanky syph nurse!
Dr. George O'Malley: That is just plain rude!

Dr. Meredith Grey: According to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, when we are dying or have suffered a catastrophic loss, we all move through five distinct stages of grief. We go into denial, because the loss is so unthinkable, we can't imagine it's true. We become angry with everyone - angry with survivors, angry with ourselves. Then we bargain. We offer everything we have. We offer up our souls in exchange for just one more day. When the bargaining has failed and the anger is too hard to maintain, we fall into depression, despair, until finally we have to accept that we have done everything we can. We let go. We let go and move into acceptance.
Dr. Meredith Grey: In medical school, we have a hundred classes that teach us how to fight off death and not one lesson in how to go on living.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] When my mother left my father, she didn't tell him she was leaving and taking me with her until wed landed to the other side of the country. In those days, it was called family troubles. Today it'd be called kidnapping.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Like I said, disappearances happen. Pains go phantom. Blood stops running. And people, people fade away. There's more I have to say, so much more. But, I disappeared.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I think I stole a baby.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, first of all, you didn't steal the baby, she's your baby. What you did is... You took her for a nap... in a very odd location and you failed to answer your phone. But y'know, many people find all the technology in our lives to be intrusive, so you're not the first person who didn't answer your phone or your pager. You know, all we have to do is... is find a reason why you were AWOL for an hour.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Four... hours.
[Cristina glares at her]
Dr. Meredith Grey: Janet was gonna take the baby, so I took off.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, okay. You know, people make mistakes. I mean, I almost killed Alex in the OR today, so we'll just figure it out.
Dr. Meredith Grey: How?
Dr. Cristina Yang: I don't know.
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, how'd you almost kill Alex?
Dr. Cristina Yang: With a cc of epi.
[Meredith looks shocked]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Ah, you know, whatever. He'll be fine. Just uh... stay here. I'll fix this.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What are you gonna do?
Dr. Cristina Yang: I'm gonna fix it.

Dr. Cristina Yang: [to her interns] I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change.
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: Trauma protocol, phone lists, pagers. The nurses will page you, you answer every page at a run. A run. That's rule number two...
[notices the interns are not following her...]
Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens: You're supposed to follow me.
Dr. Alex Karev: Your first shift starts now and lasts 36 hours. You're grunts, nobodies, the bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, work every second night until you drop. And you don't complain. You NEVER complain.
Dr. Meredith Grey: On call rooms. Sleep when you can, where you can. You know, but not with anybody. Not attendings, especially not attendings. Sleeping with attendings, not a good idea. Where was I?
Dr. George O'Malley: Er, rule number three. If you're sleeping, do not wake you unless the patient is actually dying.
Dr. Cristina Yang: The dying patient better not be dead when I get there, because not only will you have killed someone, you will have woken me for no good reason. Are we clear? Yes?
Dr. Lexie Grey: [... raising her hand...] That was four rules, you said five.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Rule number five. When I move, you move...
[awkward pause as nobody moves...]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Go!...
[Cristina's interns scramble off...]

Dr. Meredith Grey: [roommates wanted ad] Non-smokers only please, no pets & absolutely no Bush supporters need apply.

Helen: I keep telling her there's more to life than surgery and career.
Dr. Cristina Yang: [Irritated] Mother... Go bolster something.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: Look I need you to relax, shut up, and get better. You're a patient this week so you can be a doctor next week. Understand?
Dr. Cristina Yang: [Grabs Meredith] Mer, MER. You can NOT leave me alone with her... I am flying over the coo-coo's nest here, you have to save me!
Dr. Meredith Grey: You need time to heal.
Dr. Cristina Yang: I'm healed... I'M HEALED!

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]

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Cristina] Hunt literally tried to kill you. He's barely back from Iraq, it's obvious he has issues. That doesn't mean that you have to stand by and...
Dr. Cristina Yang: So like if he had a heart attack, or a stroke or lost a leg, would you walk away? So how is it any more acceptable that I walk away from this? He's wounded. He has war wounds, Meredith. It's not cut and dry, and it is not as bad as you think it is.

Dr. Derek Shepherd: So we're kissing but we're not dating?
Dr. Meredith Grey: I knew that was going to come up.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Don't get me wrong: I like the kissing. I'm all for the kissing. More kissing, I say.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I have no idea what that was about.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Is it going to happen again? 'Cause if it is, I need to bring breath mints.
[whispers]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Put a condom in my wallet.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Shut up, now!

Dr. Cristina Yang: [to Meredith] Did he talk to you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: No, he won't even look at me.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Ah, you tampered with his clinical trial. He thinks it's kinda unforgivable.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It was for Adele and the Chief...
Dr. Cristina Yang: I... I know you regret that you messed up his trial, but not what you did. I know. You don't have to defend yourself to me. I'm kind of unforgivable myself, remember?
Dr. Meredith Grey: But you're not. Not yet, at least. Have you told him?
Dr. Cristina Yang: I call him, he doesn't pick up. He sees me, he walks away, okay? I'm not gonna yell, "I didn't get the abortion yet" down the hallway.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Well, so are you going to go through with it? Or are we gonna sit there again and not get the abortion?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Tonight. Six o'clock. I'm doing it. Now, I gotta go suck up to Teddy.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Forty years ago The Beatles asked the world a simple question. They wanted to know where all the lonely people came from.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Don't get me wrong. Tiny miracles are great. A little miracle's a miracle. It just may not be enough to save us.

Dr. Meredith Grey: The thing about addiction is, it never ends well. Because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high, stops feeling good, and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom. But how do you know when you are there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes, letting it go hurts even worse.

Dr. Owen Hunt: [when Gary Clark has a gun at Cristina's head] Hey! That is the woman I love. If you shoot her, if you touch her, then I will kill you!
Gary: [points the gun at Owen] And I said stay back! Or maybe I shoot you first. I shoot you and then I shoot her and then I shoot Shepherd. Is that what you want?
[Owen shakes his head]
Gary: I didn't come here for this. My wife is dead. He's responsible. I came here for justice. An eye for an eye. The only person I want in this room is Shepherd. Now back off!
[points gun back at Cristina]
Dr. Cristina Yang: Please...
Dr. Meredith Grey: [walks in the OR] Shoot me.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Meredith...
Dr. Meredith Grey: You want justice, right? Your wife died, I know what happened. Derek told me the story. Lexie Grey is the one that pulled the plug on your wife, she's my sister. Dr. Webber, he was your wife's doctor. I'm the closest thing he has to a daughter and the man on the table, I'm his wife. If you wanna hurt them, the way that you hurt, shoot me. I'm your eye for an eye.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Meredith.
[Gary points his gun at Meredith and walks towards her]
Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Cristina] You tell Derek that I love him and that I'm sorry.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Meredith... Wait! Wait, wait, wait... She's pregnant. You wouldn't shoot a woman who's pregnant? Please.
[Owen charges Gary and Gary shoots Owen]

Viper: [after kissing Meredith] That was for good luck. Don't worry, darling, you'll see me again.
Dr. Meredith Grey: For your sake, I hope not!

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to Derek] How'd it go with the lawyers?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: They told me my death rate.
[looks at the small pile of files]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: These are the people I saved.
[looks at the big pile of files]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: These are the people I killed.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay. Well, most of those people were terminal when they came to you. You were their last chance and you take on impossible cases. Look at the clinical trial.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: It's just so many people. More than Dahmer, Mason, and Bundy combined.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You're not looking at the big picture.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: [points to the big stack of files] This is the big picture.

Dr. Connie Ryan: Okay, Meredith, I've closed your uterus and I just started to suture your incisions. Do you trust these guys to finish? Have you taught them that much?
Dr. Heather Brooks: I'll do it.
Dr. Shane Ross: No. You stole neuro. You're not stealing this. This is my surgery, my patient, my incision, mine. Dr. Grey, I'm sorry. That was inappropriate.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It's okay, Ross. I like the enthusiasm. Go scrub.

Dr. Meredith Grey: Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes to simply be human. Maybe, we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.