Grey's Anatomy Quotes
George: Well, Dr. Bailey did save your life today. A black woman saved your life with a great personal cost. So maybe next time you are looking at your tattoo and you are thinking how much better all these white guys are than everyone else. You might wanna think about that. Cause between you and me, if I had been alone in that O.R., you would probably be dead right now. And since we are sharing our belief systems, I believe that if you were dead, the world would be a better place.
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Meredith: I don't want you to date other people. It may not be enough for you, but I'm trying here so I don't want you to date anybody but me. That's it. Except, I'm scared as hell to want you, but here I am wanting you anyway. And fear means I have something to lose, right? And I don't want to lose you.
Derek: Meredith?
Meredith: Don-Don't say anything. I'm gonna leave and you can say something tomorrow. That's progress, right?
[They both smile and Meredith walks away.]
Derek: Meredith?
Meredith: Don-Don't say anything. I'm gonna leave and you can say something tomorrow. That's progress, right?
[They both smile and Meredith walks away.]
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Cristina: You did a good job today. That was not easy. What you did was not easy, it was brave.
Lexie: We killed him. The hospital, Sloan, us. We were not prepared.
Cristina: Yeah... yeah, that happens sometimes.
Lexie: That's... do you have any idea how backwards that is?
Cristina: We help more than we hurt.
Lexie: We killed him. The hospital, Sloan, us. We were not prepared.
Cristina: Yeah... yeah, that happens sometimes.
Lexie: That's... do you have any idea how backwards that is?
Cristina: We help more than we hurt.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Some days the whole world seems upside down. And then somehow, and improbably, and when you least expect it, the world rights itself again.
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Bailey: [voiceover] In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the earth, at least that’s what they say. He created the birds of the air and the beasts of the fields, and he looked at his creation and he saw that it was good. And then God created man, and it’s been downhill ever since. The story goes on to say that God created man in his own image, but there’s not much proof of that. After all God made the sun and the moon and the stars, and all man makes is trouble. And when man finds himself in trouble, which is most of the time, he turns to something bigger than himself. To love or faith or religion to make sense of it all. But for a surgeon, the only thing that makes any kind of sense is medicine.
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Lexie: Where's your girlfriend?
Alex: Back with her husband, I'm guessing...And I don't have a girlfriend.
Lexie: Or a conscience, apparently.
Alex: Back with her husband, I'm guessing...And I don't have a girlfriend.
Lexie: Or a conscience, apparently.
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Meredith: There are about a hundred steps between where we are and our dream house. They’ll be fun steps. They’ll be sexy steps. And we’ll try not to fall down them together.Okay?
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Hahn: Now do you want me to stay here talking to you? Or do you want me to try and save your baby's life?
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Bailey: [voiceover] As doctors, we know more about the human body now than at any point in our history. But the miracle of life itself; why people live and die, why they hurt and get hurt is still a mystery. We want to know the reason, the secret, the answer at the back of the book…because the thought of our being all alone down here is just too much for us to bear. But at the end of the day, the fact that we show up for each other, in spite our differences, no matter what we believe, is reason enough to keep believing.
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Meredith: [voiceover] We like to think that we are rational beings; humane, conscientious, civilized, thoughtful. But when things fall apart, even just a little, it becomes clear we are not better than animals. We have opposable thumbs, we think, we walk erect, we speak, we dream, but deep down we are still routing around in the primordial ooze; biting, clawing, scratching out an existence in the cold, dark world like the rest of the tree-toads and sloths.
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Bailey: Now may I recommend you all go home? You smell, you're greasy, you need to bathe and I'm sick of lookin' at ya.
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Mark: Hey, if you were sleeping with Rose, I could understand why you're spending time with her, but you're not. And it's... it's just I thought that uh... you know. I thought it was just gonna be you and me!
Derek: Having sex?
Mark: After! After Addison, after Meredith. I have been patient. I have waited when you partnered up with these chicks, but now they're over. And it's supposed to be just us! You and me; two guys on the prowl, on the hunt.
Derek: You're having trouble getting laid. And you need my help.
Mark: I can get laid. I can get laid whenever I want. I DO get laid whenever I want. That's the point. Women are everywhere... I only have one person I can talk to.
Derek: That's sweet.
Mark: Shut up!
Derek: No, it's really warm and fuzzy.
Derek: Having sex?
Mark: After! After Addison, after Meredith. I have been patient. I have waited when you partnered up with these chicks, but now they're over. And it's supposed to be just us! You and me; two guys on the prowl, on the hunt.
Derek: You're having trouble getting laid. And you need my help.
Mark: I can get laid. I can get laid whenever I want. I DO get laid whenever I want. That's the point. Women are everywhere... I only have one person I can talk to.
Derek: That's sweet.
Mark: Shut up!
Derek: No, it's really warm and fuzzy.
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Chief: The contest is a lions' fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds, celebrate them. The scars you bear are the signs of a competitor. You were in a lions' fight, Stevens. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.
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Meredith: [voiceover]There’s a little animal in all of us and maybe that’s something to celebrate. Our animal instinct is what makes us seek comfort, warmth, a pack to run with. We may feel caged, we may feel trapped, but still as humans we can find ways to feel free. We are each other’s keepers, we are the guardians of our own humanity and even though there’s a beast inside all of us, what sets us apart from the animals is that we can think, feel, dream and love. And against all odds, against all instinct, we evolve.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Great surgeons aren't made, they're born. It takes gestation, incubation, sacrifice. A lot of sacrifice. But after all the blood and guts and gooey stuff is washed away that surgeon you've become - totally worth it.
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Callie: What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Addison: Callie...
Callie Uh-huh?
Addison: Are you speaking the vagina monologues now?
Callie: What?
Addison I'm all for it okay? I think it's fantastic. Erica, I mean she seems great. I really do like her, actually, I do, and... are you?
Callie: You want to know if Erica and I are a... a couple? Because I defended her with Yang?
Addison: Because you seem like a couple, a really happy couple
[Callie laughs hysterically]
Callie: That's... that's.. that's just... that's insane is...is-is-is-is what it is.. I'm... I... I-I like penis. I'm a huge HUGE fan of penis.
Addison: Callie...
Callie Uh-huh?
Addison: Are you speaking the vagina monologues now?
Callie: What?
Addison I'm all for it okay? I think it's fantastic. Erica, I mean she seems great. I really do like her, actually, I do, and... are you?
Callie: You want to know if Erica and I are a... a couple? Because I defended her with Yang?
Addison: Because you seem like a couple, a really happy couple
[Callie laughs hysterically]
Callie: That's... that's.. that's just... that's insane is...is-is-is-is what it is.. I'm... I... I-I like penis. I'm a huge HUGE fan of penis.
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Callie: Did anyone ever think you two were a couple?
Meredith: No because we screw boys like whores on tequila.
Cristina: And then we either try to marry them or drown ourselves.
Meredith: No because we screw boys like whores on tequila.
Cristina: And then we either try to marry them or drown ourselves.
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Meredith: Hey, you're leaving already?
Addison: I have a plane to catch...I walk on the beach now, I buy Aromatherapy candles, I'm very zen, but I want to kick your ass so badly right now it is killing me.
Meredith: Excuse me?
Addison: I'm talking about Derek. Derek Christopher Shepherd. Are you letting him get away? Because I swear to God Meredith, if you let him ride off into the sunset with that doe-eyed little thing...[walks away]
Addison: I have a plane to catch...I walk on the beach now, I buy Aromatherapy candles, I'm very zen, but I want to kick your ass so badly right now it is killing me.
Meredith: Excuse me?
Addison: I'm talking about Derek. Derek Christopher Shepherd. Are you letting him get away? Because I swear to God Meredith, if you let him ride off into the sunset with that doe-eyed little thing...[walks away]
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Meredith: [voiceover] Giving birth may be all intense and magical and stuff, but the act itself is not exactly pleasant. But it's also a beginning of something incredible, something new, something unpredictable, something true, something worth loving, something worth missing, something that will change your life forever.
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Meredith: [voiceover] There's this person in my head. She's brilliant. Capable. She can do chest tubes and craniotomies, she can run a code without freaking out. She's a really good surgeon. Maybe even a great surgeon. She's me. Only so much better.
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Bailey: Just wanted to drop off the form myself... answer any questions you might have.
Chief: There are interns on this form
Bailey: Mmhmm.. I require the energy of youth. Dr. Shepherd was a moment of weakness for both of us.
Chief: Dr. Sloan?
Bailey: Oh that was many moments. On-call rooms. It was..very hot.
Adele: Mmhmm.. McSteamy.
Chief: Alright, Dr. Bailey I get the joke.
Bailey: See this is a joke to you. I am a single woman. I've been a single woman for some time now, but the very idea that I could have a sexual encounter [She glares at the Board Member across the table], a consensual sexual encounter..is a joke to you!
Chief: Dr. Bailey I...
Bailey: So much so that you would single me out of this entire hospital as the one person who couldn't interest a person of the opposite sex..it's..it's..it's just...
Adele: It's harassment.
Chief: A..Adele!
[Bailey slaps the Chief's shoulder hard]
Bailey: Just shame on you sir! Just shame on you!! [She storms out]
Chief: There are interns on this form
Bailey: Mmhmm.. I require the energy of youth. Dr. Shepherd was a moment of weakness for both of us.
Chief: Dr. Sloan?
Bailey: Oh that was many moments. On-call rooms. It was..very hot.
Adele: Mmhmm.. McSteamy.
Chief: Alright, Dr. Bailey I get the joke.
Bailey: See this is a joke to you. I am a single woman. I've been a single woman for some time now, but the very idea that I could have a sexual encounter [She glares at the Board Member across the table], a consensual sexual encounter..is a joke to you!
Chief: Dr. Bailey I...
Bailey: So much so that you would single me out of this entire hospital as the one person who couldn't interest a person of the opposite sex..it's..it's..it's just...
Adele: It's harassment.
Chief: A..Adele!
[Bailey slaps the Chief's shoulder hard]
Bailey: Just shame on you sir! Just shame on you!! [She storms out]
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Hahn: So are we on for tonight or what?
Callie: Um.. I told you I had a thing.
Erica: I don't ah..make friends easily. I'm awkward and am bad at small talk and generally don't like people I don't know.. but I made friends with you and now you have this thing and that thing is Sloan.
Callie: Are you mad that I'm sleeping with Mark Sloan.
Erica: I'm not mad that you're sleeping with Sloan. I'm mad that you didn't tell me that you're sleeping with Sloan. I'm mad at you. Because instead of telling me and admitting that you're one of those girls who goes all pouffy when she gets a boyfriend, you disappear with your thing. [She walks away but stops] I don't make friends easily.
Callie: Um.. I told you I had a thing.
Erica: I don't ah..make friends easily. I'm awkward and am bad at small talk and generally don't like people I don't know.. but I made friends with you and now you have this thing and that thing is Sloan.
Callie: Are you mad that I'm sleeping with Mark Sloan.
Erica: I'm not mad that you're sleeping with Sloan. I'm mad that you didn't tell me that you're sleeping with Sloan. I'm mad at you. Because instead of telling me and admitting that you're one of those girls who goes all pouffy when she gets a boyfriend, you disappear with your thing. [She walks away but stops] I don't make friends easily.
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Chief: Going through all the forms I noticed you didn't hand yours in.
Cristina: No sir.
Chief: I need you to. The hospital is still liable even though Dr. Burke isn't here. [Cristina walks forward to the table to fill out her form]
Cristina: There my sexual relationship ..Preston Burke..on paper satisfied?
Richard: I know this is difficult for you.
Cristina: It is not difficult sir..it is simple. Burke is not here. He's gone and he's the better for it. He's winning the Harper Avery award and being celebrated all over the world. That is not difficult. He's out there and I'm here where everything is the same. I still live in his apartment, I walk the same halls of this hospital, I wear the same scrubs. It is not difficult. This is where I chose to be. But sir when his hand was shaking I performed the surgeries, I kept his secrets, I nursed his pride.. you know it and I know it, and he knows it. HE KNOWS IT and yet nowhere in that newspaper article does my name appear. I am the unseen hand to his brilliance. [She turns away to wipe away her tears] Excuse me..and yet while everything is the same it is very, very different. Now I'm lucky if I get to hold a clamp. Hahn treats me like...I was his hand and now I'm a ghost. That is not difficult... it's unbearable. Everybody is proud of him... but I'm not... I do not wish him well. [She leaves the room]
Cristina: No sir.
Chief: I need you to. The hospital is still liable even though Dr. Burke isn't here. [Cristina walks forward to the table to fill out her form]
Cristina: There my sexual relationship ..Preston Burke..on paper satisfied?
Richard: I know this is difficult for you.
Cristina: It is not difficult sir..it is simple. Burke is not here. He's gone and he's the better for it. He's winning the Harper Avery award and being celebrated all over the world. That is not difficult. He's out there and I'm here where everything is the same. I still live in his apartment, I walk the same halls of this hospital, I wear the same scrubs. It is not difficult. This is where I chose to be. But sir when his hand was shaking I performed the surgeries, I kept his secrets, I nursed his pride.. you know it and I know it, and he knows it. HE KNOWS IT and yet nowhere in that newspaper article does my name appear. I am the unseen hand to his brilliance. [She turns away to wipe away her tears] Excuse me..and yet while everything is the same it is very, very different. Now I'm lucky if I get to hold a clamp. Hahn treats me like...I was his hand and now I'm a ghost. That is not difficult... it's unbearable. Everybody is proud of him... but I'm not... I do not wish him well. [She leaves the room]
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Meredith: [voiceover]: It was a good day. Maybe even a great day. I was a good doctor, even when it was hard, I was the me in my head. There was a moment when I thought I can't do this, I can't do this alone. I close my eyes and imagine myself doing it, and I did, I blocked out the fear, and I did it. [to Dr. Wyatt] It was a really good day.
Dr. Wyatt: Look, I'm just going to say this because your insurance only covers 20 sessions and I feel we should get right to the point. That was a load of crap. It was not a good day, your patient died alone unable to tell the love of his life how he felt.
Meredith: Yeah, but he did it for his boyfriend. I mean, I actually think it was kind of heroic.
Dr. Wyatt: It's a load of crap.
Meredith: Stop saying that!
Dr. Wyatt: Look, let me draw the parallels for you. The tragic patient dies alone while the love of his life is LITERALLY in the next room. That's you.
Meredith: What are you talking about? I'm not dying alone.
Dr. Wyatt: Oh. But I think you are, and you're telling yourself you're a hero, when in reality all you are is alone.
Meredith: THAT is a load of crap!
Dr. Wyatt: He's with Rose.
Meredith: [Sighs, and stands up] You know what, I'm not going to do this.
Dr. Wyatt: He's with Rose.
Meredith: WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING THAT?!?
Dr. Wyatt: Because if you can't see what is wrong with that sentence, "He's with Rose", we're never going to get anywhere. He's with Rose.
Meredith: OKAY! So he's with Rose. SO WHAT?!
Dr. Wyatt: And if he's with Rose that means he's not with you. And do you know why he's not with you? [Pause] You're scared.
Meredith: Are you calling me a coward?
Dr. Wyatt: I think you are very frightened, Dr. Grey.
Mer
Dr. Wyatt: Look, I'm just going to say this because your insurance only covers 20 sessions and I feel we should get right to the point. That was a load of crap. It was not a good day, your patient died alone unable to tell the love of his life how he felt.
Meredith: Yeah, but he did it for his boyfriend. I mean, I actually think it was kind of heroic.
Dr. Wyatt: It's a load of crap.
Meredith: Stop saying that!
Dr. Wyatt: Look, let me draw the parallels for you. The tragic patient dies alone while the love of his life is LITERALLY in the next room. That's you.
Meredith: What are you talking about? I'm not dying alone.
Dr. Wyatt: Oh. But I think you are, and you're telling yourself you're a hero, when in reality all you are is alone.
Meredith: THAT is a load of crap!
Dr. Wyatt: He's with Rose.
Meredith: [Sighs, and stands up] You know what, I'm not going to do this.
Dr. Wyatt: He's with Rose.
Meredith: WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING THAT?!?
Dr. Wyatt: Because if you can't see what is wrong with that sentence, "He's with Rose", we're never going to get anywhere. He's with Rose.
Meredith: OKAY! So he's with Rose. SO WHAT?!
Dr. Wyatt: And if he's with Rose that means he's not with you. And do you know why he's not with you? [Pause] You're scared.
Meredith: Are you calling me a coward?
Dr. Wyatt: I think you are very frightened, Dr. Grey.
Mer
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Meredith: [voiceover] The problem with being a resident is you feel crazy all the time. You haven't slept in years. You spend everyday with people in massive crisis. You lose your ability to judge what's normal, in yourself or anyone else. And yet people are constantly asking you to tell them how you're doing. How the hell are you supposed to know? You don't even know how you're doing.
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Meredith: We've got this patient and she’s got true love. You wanna know why? Because her boyfriend doesn’t exist. Derek is all broken up over her like it means something that she’s having an affair with a hallucination.
Dr. Wyatt: But Derek wasn't ready to give up on the relationship when you were.
Meredith: No, I didn’t give up. I wanted to try again, and then he went and kissed Rose. So he’s the one that messes up, not me.
Dr. Wyatt: But it’s a relationship. People make mistakes, and you stand back waiting for him to fail so you can say AHA! Now I quit.
Meredith: No, it wasn’t working
Dr. Wyatt: Was your life not working when you let that slip out from under you?
Meredith: When are you going to stop suggesting that I’m suicidal?
Dr. Wyatt: When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive.
Meredith: Give me my chart.
Dr. Wyatt: Why?
Meredith: Because I’m not suicidal, and if it says that I am, then it’s wrong.
Dr. Wyatt: What happened last year when you fell in the water?
Meredith: I almost drowned. Do you think I did that for kicks?
Dr. Wyatt: You put your hand in a body cavity that contained unexploded ordnance.
Meredith: I was trying to save a patient!
Dr. Wyatt: Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to hit the deck? You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.
Meredith: Hand me my chart. NOW! And don't ever talk
Dr. Wyatt: But Derek wasn't ready to give up on the relationship when you were.
Meredith: No, I didn’t give up. I wanted to try again, and then he went and kissed Rose. So he’s the one that messes up, not me.
Dr. Wyatt: But it’s a relationship. People make mistakes, and you stand back waiting for him to fail so you can say AHA! Now I quit.
Meredith: No, it wasn’t working
Dr. Wyatt: Was your life not working when you let that slip out from under you?
Meredith: When are you going to stop suggesting that I’m suicidal?
Dr. Wyatt: When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive.
Meredith: Give me my chart.
Dr. Wyatt: Why?
Meredith: Because I’m not suicidal, and if it says that I am, then it’s wrong.
Dr. Wyatt: What happened last year when you fell in the water?
Meredith: I almost drowned. Do you think I did that for kicks?
Dr. Wyatt: You put your hand in a body cavity that contained unexploded ordnance.
Meredith: I was trying to save a patient!
Dr. Wyatt: Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to hit the deck? You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.
Meredith: Hand me my chart. NOW! And don't ever talk
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Lexie: Are you okay?
Cristina: Don't ask me if I'm okay.
Lexie: Okay.
Cristina: Ugh, you make me sick. Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don't give a damn what anyone thinks. There are no teams here, no buddies. You're on your own. Be on your own.
Cristina: Don't ask me if I'm okay.
Lexie: Okay.
Cristina: Ugh, you make me sick. Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don't give a damn what anyone thinks. There are no teams here, no buddies. You're on your own. Be on your own.
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Lexie: I forgive you.
Meredith: Lexie.
Lexie: No. I forgive you. I forgive you for treating me like crap, and I forgive you for letting your friend treat me like crap.
Meredith: Lexie...
Lexie: I don't know how you get up in the morning, I honestly don't. Our dad abandoned you. And your mom by all accounts was the meanest person ever and you can't let Derek love you and it all really, really sucks. But ever since I knew you existed I had this fantasy about my big sister and you have failed, on every occasion to live up to that fantasy. But I still love you, whether you are capable of letting me or not. So, I forgive you. [storms out of bathroom]
Dr. Wyatt: [comes out of bathroom stall] Two o'clock work for you?
Meredith: Yeah...okay.
Meredith: Lexie.
Lexie: No. I forgive you. I forgive you for treating me like crap, and I forgive you for letting your friend treat me like crap.
Meredith: Lexie...
Lexie: I don't know how you get up in the morning, I honestly don't. Our dad abandoned you. And your mom by all accounts was the meanest person ever and you can't let Derek love you and it all really, really sucks. But ever since I knew you existed I had this fantasy about my big sister and you have failed, on every occasion to live up to that fantasy. But I still love you, whether you are capable of letting me or not. So, I forgive you. [storms out of bathroom]
Dr. Wyatt: [comes out of bathroom stall] Two o'clock work for you?
Meredith: Yeah...okay.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Don´t wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don´t. In the face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it together.
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Mark: It's inappropriate, don't you think? Thinking about sex during surgery? I'm just saying what I've been witnessing all day.
Callie: This poor kids entire body was cased in cement, his legs are crushed, vessels and nerves nearly cut off completely, and still, I was turned on. This entire time I've been turned on because of you, and your dirty talk.
Mark: It wasn't my dirty talk, what I was dirty talking about.
Callie: What?
Mark: Erica. You and Erica.
Callie: No, that's... No.
Mark: Callie.
Callie: What?
Mark: It's OK. I wish I was all someone thought about.
Callie: This poor kids entire body was cased in cement, his legs are crushed, vessels and nerves nearly cut off completely, and still, I was turned on. This entire time I've been turned on because of you, and your dirty talk.
Mark: It wasn't my dirty talk, what I was dirty talking about.
Callie: What?
Mark: Erica. You and Erica.
Callie: No, that's... No.
Mark: Callie.
Callie: What?
Mark: It's OK. I wish I was all someone thought about.
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