The Best Kelly McCreary Quotes

Dr. Maggie Pierce: Okay. That face that you're making. I don't know you well enough to know what that means.
Dr. Meredith Grey: You know those very happy cheerful people who have everything? And when the fact that they have everything, they act all humble and just say 'I am so blessed' ? Those people, you wanna punch those people in the face?
Dr. Maggie Pierce: Yeah. I do know those people.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah. I'm one of those people now.
Dr. Maggie Pierce: Okay.
Dr. Meredith Grey: This morning, I was standing on the porch of my perfect house, looking in the window at my amazing perfect children, and my amazing gorgeous husband, all the way to my amazing job, and I thought to myself 'I have everything that I have ever wanted.' I am just so blessed.
Dr. Maggie Pierce: I really wanna pumble your face in right now.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Right. I would beat myself up except I'm too tired from..
Dr. Maggie Pierce: [Maggie interrupts] Were you about to say you were exhausted from all the great sex you're having?
Dr. Meredith Grey: [Meredith smiles and gloats] I am just so blessed.
Dr. Maggie Pierce: I'm gonna walk away from you now.

Dr. Maggie Pierce: [to Nathan] You don't owe me an explanation, obviously, but you're a good guy and a great surgeon, and I just... Why?
Dr. Nathan Riggs: I didn't lie to Meredith.
Dr. Maggie Pierce: It's fine. Forget it.
Dr. Nathan Riggs: Look, everything I told her was true. There was a patient. There was a helicopter. I just left some parts out. The part where we fought... where I cheated... where I failed the best person I've ever met, the only woman I've ever loved. And those parts are for me and Megan. You're right. I don't owe anyone that. I made a mistake, a big one and I've paid for it ever since.

Dr. Amelia Shepherd: So, this morning they put your mom on a ventilator.
Zola: That's the machine that breathes for her.
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: Yes.
Zola: When will they take her off of it?
Dr. Maggie Pierce: Different people come off of it at different times.
Zola: My dad never did. Do you think my mom will?
Dr. Maggie Pierce: We hope so.
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: But we don't know. We just -- We don't know.
Zola: We shouldn't tell Bailey and Ellis. Not unless we need to. They're just too young to understand.
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: Okay. We'll wait.

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. 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. Amelia Shepherd: I was Zola and Bailey and Ellis. I was the kid who lost a parent and the world turned upside down. And I don't know... if I hadn't been there to see my dad dead on the ground, how long they would've waited to tell me. Nobody talked about it. I didn't expect answers, but... there wasn't room for questions. Just... Silence.
Dr. Maggie Pierce: Meredith told the kids about Derek. We can do this for her. She deserves us stepping up. And the kids do, too.
Dr. Amelia Shepherd: Can we just stay here a little longer?