Grey's Anatomy Quotes
Clay: You have your beliefs, I have mine.
Dr. Dixon: I don't have beliefs, I have science.
Clay: Science is a belief. You believe in only what you can see and touch. I believe in more.
Dr. Dixon: I don't have beliefs, I have science.
Clay: Science is a belief. You believe in only what you can see and touch. I believe in more.
TV Show: Grey's Anatomy
Meredith: [voiceover] The ties that binds us are sometimes impossible to explain. They connect us even after it seems like the ties should be broken. Some bonds defy distance and time and logic; Because some ties are simply... meant to be.
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Meredith: [voiceover] When you're little, night time is scary because there are monsters under the bed. When you get older the monsters are different. Self doubt, loneliness, regret. And though you may be older and wiser, you still find yourself scared of the dark.
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Izzie: I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed. Because this is like that moment in the morning when you first wake up and your still half asleep and everything seems.. things are possible dreams feel true and for that one moment between waking and dreaming anything can be real and then you open your eyes and the sun hits you and then you realize - I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Sleep. Its the easiest thing to do; you just close your eyes. but for so many of us, sleep seems out of grasp. We want it, but we don't know how to get it. Yet once we face our fears and turn to each other for help, night time isn't so scary because we realize even in the dark, we aren't all alone.
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Meredith: [voiceover] My mother called it the greatest and most terrifying moment in her life, standing at the head of the surgical table knowing that the patient’s life depends on you and you alone. It what we all dream about because the first person that gets to fly solo in the OR, kind of a badass.
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Alex: Iz, I won!
Izzie: Hey, what time is it?
Alex: Yang, she picked me for the solo surgery!
Izzie: She did? That's amazing.
Alex: I love you.
Izzie: What?
Alex: I love you. I freaking love you. I just got the solo surgery and the first thing I did was look for you, and you weren't there. You're never there anymore. And I've been thinking about it, and I think it might be because you love me too. And you're scared of that. And cause I screwed it up last time, and cause Denny died, and...
Izzie: Alex...
Alex: Just listen, you had that heart patient and it reminded you of Denny and how bad you felt when you were laying there on that bathroom floor. I get that, I get that you're scared but you're not going to have to feel like that again. Cause I'm not gonna die Iz, and I'm not gonna cheat on you, and I'm not gonna go anywhere. Cause I think you're my best shot at.... I think with you, you make me better. You make me wanna be better, you make me wanna be good. And I think I can. With you, I think I can. So I'm not going anywhere, and you can stop hiding. And if you wanna be scared, that's okay. Just be scared with me. Be scared while you scrub in with me for my first solo surgery. Okay?
Izzie: You love me?
Alex: Shut up!
[they kiss]
Alex: Solo surgery! [leaves]
Denny: I'm really starting to not like that guy.
Izzie: Hey, what time is it?
Alex: Yang, she picked me for the solo surgery!
Izzie: She did? That's amazing.
Alex: I love you.
Izzie: What?
Alex: I love you. I freaking love you. I just got the solo surgery and the first thing I did was look for you, and you weren't there. You're never there anymore. And I've been thinking about it, and I think it might be because you love me too. And you're scared of that. And cause I screwed it up last time, and cause Denny died, and...
Izzie: Alex...
Alex: Just listen, you had that heart patient and it reminded you of Denny and how bad you felt when you were laying there on that bathroom floor. I get that, I get that you're scared but you're not going to have to feel like that again. Cause I'm not gonna die Iz, and I'm not gonna cheat on you, and I'm not gonna go anywhere. Cause I think you're my best shot at.... I think with you, you make me better. You make me wanna be better, you make me wanna be good. And I think I can. With you, I think I can. So I'm not going anywhere, and you can stop hiding. And if you wanna be scared, that's okay. Just be scared with me. Be scared while you scrub in with me for my first solo surgery. Okay?
Izzie: You love me?
Alex: Shut up!
[they kiss]
Alex: Solo surgery! [leaves]
Denny: I'm really starting to not like that guy.
TV Show: Grey's Anatomy
Meredith: [voiceover] We enter the world alone and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to our self to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise we’re in it by our self. Strangers, cut off from each other and we forget just how connect we all are. So instead we choose love. We choose life and for a moment we feel just a little bit less alone.
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Meredith: [voiceover] We all get at least one good wish in a year over the candles on our birthday. Some of us throw in more, on eyelashes, fountains, lucky stars. And every now and then, one of those wishes come true. So what then? Is it as good as we hoped? Do we bask in the warm glow of our happiness or do we just notice we’ve got a long list of other wishes waiting to be wished.
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Meredith: [voiceover] We don’t wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach. We wish because we need help and we’re scared and we know we may be asking too much. We still wished though because sometimes they come true.
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Meredith: [voiceover] My mother used to say this about residency, “It takes a year to learn how to cut. It takes a lifetime to learn not to.” Of all of the tools on the surgical tray, sound judgment is the trickiest one to master. And without it, we’re all just toddlers running around with ten blades.
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Meredith: [voiceover] We’re human. We make mistakes. We mis-estimate. We call it wrong. But when a surgeon makes a bad judgment call, it’s not as simple. People get hurt. They bleed. So we struggle over every stitch. We agonize over every suture because the snap judgments, the ones that come to us quickly and easily without hesitation, they’re the one that haunt us forever.
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Denny: [voiceover] I believe in heaven. I also believe in hell. I’ve never seen either, but I believe they exist. They have to exist because without a heaven, without a hell, we’re all just headed for limbo.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Any first year med student knows that an increase heart rate is a sign of trouble. A racing heart can indicate anything from a panic disorder to something much, much more serious. A heart that flutters, or one that skips a beat, could be a sign of secret affliction or it could indicate romance which is the biggest trouble of all.
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Callie: Alone people don't like to hear about the together people...It's just sort of mean. It's sort of like bringing a 6-pack to an AA meeting.
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Derek: She said a thing about babies. Like babies are a totally ordinary idea. She's not afraid, she's ready.
Mark: When are you gonna do it?
Chief: Do what?
Mark: Shepherd's proposing.
Richard: No kidding? Outstanding! How're you gonna do it?
Derek: I don't know. Just decided.
Owen: Morning.
Mark: Shepherd's proposing.
Owen: Congratulations, that's a big step.
Derek: Thank you very much. : [to Mark] You just gonna tell everybody now?
Mark: You need advice. Hunt, you ever proposed before?
Owen: Uh sorry I'm...not the guy to ask. When are you gonna do it?
[Meredith approaches]
Derek: Well more importantly how am I gonna do it?
Mark: : [sees Meredith, coughs] So, what do you use, like a twist drill for that?
[Richard leaves]
Derek: Well not if you don't want a partial, pridal hematoma!
[Derek, Mark and Owen do big fake laugh]
Meredith: [confused] Hi... [walks away]
Mark: When are you gonna do it?
Chief: Do what?
Mark: Shepherd's proposing.
Richard: No kidding? Outstanding! How're you gonna do it?
Derek: I don't know. Just decided.
Owen: Morning.
Mark: Shepherd's proposing.
Owen: Congratulations, that's a big step.
Derek: Thank you very much. : [to Mark] You just gonna tell everybody now?
Mark: You need advice. Hunt, you ever proposed before?
Owen: Uh sorry I'm...not the guy to ask. When are you gonna do it?
[Meredith approaches]
Derek: Well more importantly how am I gonna do it?
Mark: : [sees Meredith, coughs] So, what do you use, like a twist drill for that?
[Richard leaves]
Derek: Well not if you don't want a partial, pridal hematoma!
[Derek, Mark and Owen do big fake laugh]
Meredith: [confused] Hi... [walks away]
TV Show: Grey's Anatomy
Meredith: [voiceover] It seems we have no control what so ever over our own hearts. Condition can change without warning. Romance can make the heart pound just like panic can. And panic can make it stop cold in your chest. It’s no wonder doctors spend so much time to keep the heart stable, to keep it slow, steady, regular to stop the heart from pounding out of your chest from the dread of something terrible or the anticipation or something else entirely.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Every patient’s story starts the same way. It starts with them being fine, it starts in the before. They cling to this moment, this memory of being fine, this before, as though talking about it may somehow bring it back. But what they don’t realise is that they’re talking about it to us, their doctors and that means there’s no going back. By the time they see us, they’re already in the after. And while every patient’s story starts the same way, how the story ends depends on us, on how well we diagnose and treat. We know the story hinges on us and we all want to be the hero.
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Bailey: [watching Addison sit in the chapel] What's she doing?
Chief: It looks like she's praying.
Sam: Mmm no. Addie doesn't pray.
Callie: What's she doing?
Naomi: Uhh, she's praying.
Callie: : [she laughs] Addison doesn't pray. She must be hiding.
Addison: I can hear you! And I'm not hiding, I'm trying to pray. But I don't know how to pray because we only go to church on Christmas.
Callie: You guys go, I got this. : [sits next to Addison]
Addison: I have no cloud with God. God doesn't even know who I am. Which sucks because I could...I could use some help.
Callie: Dear God, I need your guidance. I kissed a peds surgeon.
Addison: You kissed a peds surgeon?
Callie: I never thought I'd end up with a woman, God, but, I mean not until lately, but that's not the problem. The problem is the peds thing. She's, she`s perky... and has butterflies on her scrub cap. But she's also hot... really hot. So, help me get over the butterflies. Amen. You`re amazing doctor, you save babies. God knows who you are.
Addison: Do you really believe in all this? In God?
Callie: Sometimes. Most of the time. When it counts.
Chief: It looks like she's praying.
Sam: Mmm no. Addie doesn't pray.
Callie: What's she doing?
Naomi: Uhh, she's praying.
Callie: : [she laughs] Addison doesn't pray. She must be hiding.
Addison: I can hear you! And I'm not hiding, I'm trying to pray. But I don't know how to pray because we only go to church on Christmas.
Callie: You guys go, I got this. : [sits next to Addison]
Addison: I have no cloud with God. God doesn't even know who I am. Which sucks because I could...I could use some help.
Callie: Dear God, I need your guidance. I kissed a peds surgeon.
Addison: You kissed a peds surgeon?
Callie: I never thought I'd end up with a woman, God, but, I mean not until lately, but that's not the problem. The problem is the peds thing. She's, she`s perky... and has butterflies on her scrub cap. But she's also hot... really hot. So, help me get over the butterflies. Amen. You`re amazing doctor, you save babies. God knows who you are.
Addison: Do you really believe in all this? In God?
Callie: Sometimes. Most of the time. When it counts.
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Meredith: [voiceover] There’s this thing that happens when people find out you’re a doctor. They stop seeing you as a person and begin to see you something bigger than you are. They have to see us that way, as gods, otherwise we’re just like everyone else, unsure, flawed, normal. So we act strong, we remain stoic. We hide the fact that we’re all too human.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Patients see us as gods or they see us as monsters. But the fact is, we’re just people. We screw up, either way. Even the best of us, have our off days. Still we move forward. We don’t rest our laurels or celebrate the lives we’ve saved in the past. Because there’s always some other patient that needs our help. So we force ourselves to keep trying, to keep learning. In the hope that, maybe, someday we’ll come just a little bit closer to the gods our patients need us to be.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Every surgeon I know has, a shadow. A dark cloud of fear and that follows even the best of us into the OR. We pretend the shadow isn’t there hoping that if we save more lives, master harder techniques, run faster and farther it will get tired and give up the chase but like they say... you can’t outrun your shadow.
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Meredith: [voiceover] They say the bigger your investment, the bigger your return. But you have to be willing to take a chance. You have to understand, you might lose it all. But if you take that chance, if you invest wisely, the payoff might just surprise you.
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Meredith: How'd it go with the lawyers?
Derek: They told me my death rate. [looks at a small pile] These are the people I saved. [looks at a big pile] These are the people I killed.
Meredith: 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.
Derek: It's just so many people. More than Dahmer, Manson, and Bundy combined.
Meredith: You're not looking at the big picture.
Derek: [points to the big stack of files] This is the big picture.
Derek: They told me my death rate. [looks at a small pile] These are the people I saved. [looks at a big pile] These are the people I killed.
Meredith: 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.
Derek: It's just so many people. More than Dahmer, Manson, and Bundy combined.
Meredith: You're not looking at the big picture.
Derek: [points to the big stack of files] This is the big picture.
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[Derek is sitting on the couch eating cereal, in a mess of empty containers, and papers. They are all looking at him from the hallway]
Alex: Dude, he's fried.
Meredith: He is not fried. He lost a patient and got hit with a lawsuit all in the all in one week. He just needs time.
Alex: He's been sitting there for 3 days. The sofa cushions are gonna start bonding to his ass, and he's eating all of my cereal.
Izzie: He's taking stock. Something huge and life-altering happened to him, and he's taking stock, figuring out his next move. We shouldn't judge him, we shoudn't rush him.
Alex: Whatever. Sylvia Plath's picking out all of the marshmallows. They're the best part!
Lexie: And I'm pretty sure that he's sitting on me keys. I'd ask him to move but he looks so... comfy.
Meredith: Oh, you guys are cowards. (walks over to Derek) Hey. You're eating, that's good. Appetite is good. You know what else is good? Showering, cleansing, water. Are you thinking that you'll shower, maybe go into the hospital?
Derek: I have to, for the deposition. I have to go and explain in detail how I killed a man's pregnant wife.
Meredith: That's good. I-I mean, not the k-killing part but the.. I.. I think you'll feel better once... you go to... work. [Derek sighs and gets up off the sofa, and walks over to the others and slams the cereal box in Alex's chest] He'll be fine.
Alex: Dude, he's fried.
Meredith: He is not fried. He lost a patient and got hit with a lawsuit all in the all in one week. He just needs time.
Alex: He's been sitting there for 3 days. The sofa cushions are gonna start bonding to his ass, and he's eating all of my cereal.
Izzie: He's taking stock. Something huge and life-altering happened to him, and he's taking stock, figuring out his next move. We shouldn't judge him, we shoudn't rush him.
Alex: Whatever. Sylvia Plath's picking out all of the marshmallows. They're the best part!
Lexie: And I'm pretty sure that he's sitting on me keys. I'd ask him to move but he looks so... comfy.
Meredith: Oh, you guys are cowards. (walks over to Derek) Hey. You're eating, that's good. Appetite is good. You know what else is good? Showering, cleansing, water. Are you thinking that you'll shower, maybe go into the hospital?
Derek: I have to, for the deposition. I have to go and explain in detail how I killed a man's pregnant wife.
Meredith: That's good. I-I mean, not the k-killing part but the.. I.. I think you'll feel better once... you go to... work. [Derek sighs and gets up off the sofa, and walks over to the others and slams the cereal box in Alex's chest] He'll be fine.
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Meredith: [about Derek] And he just walked out. Without saying a word, he just walked out!
Cristina: Hunt won't even look at me, since he went all Apocalypse Now on me this morning.
Meredith: He had to get all scalpel happy up in that patients brain, and now he can't face it!
Cristina: He thinks I'm what? This wilting flower? Well guess what, I'm the strong one.
Meredith: Oh my god! I'm the strong one.
Cristina: You see, if I had that stomach cancer gene, I would get that gastrectomy no problem. I face things, I don't walk away.
Meredith: Derek walks away. Maybe walking away is the answer?
Cristina: See it's not emotional, it's science. You have a problem, don't ignore it.
Meredith: Well, sometimes if you have to pee and you ignore it, it does go away.
Izzie: [laughs] You guys are hilarious! I mean do you even know what she just said? Or what she just said? [Meredith and Cristina look at each other] I can totally see you guys in 50 years, at a nursing home, just talking at each other with your hearing aids off. [laughs] Hi-larious! Ah, I love lunch.
Cristina: Hunt won't even look at me, since he went all Apocalypse Now on me this morning.
Meredith: He had to get all scalpel happy up in that patients brain, and now he can't face it!
Cristina: He thinks I'm what? This wilting flower? Well guess what, I'm the strong one.
Meredith: Oh my god! I'm the strong one.
Cristina: You see, if I had that stomach cancer gene, I would get that gastrectomy no problem. I face things, I don't walk away.
Meredith: Derek walks away. Maybe walking away is the answer?
Cristina: See it's not emotional, it's science. You have a problem, don't ignore it.
Meredith: Well, sometimes if you have to pee and you ignore it, it does go away.
Izzie: [laughs] You guys are hilarious! I mean do you even know what she just said? Or what she just said? [Meredith and Cristina look at each other] I can totally see you guys in 50 years, at a nursing home, just talking at each other with your hearing aids off. [laughs] Hi-larious! Ah, I love lunch.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Every surgeon has a shadow. And the only way to get rid of a shadow is to turn off the lights, to stop running from the darkness and face what you fear, head on.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Surgeons aren’t known for being warm and cuddly. They’re arrogant, impatient, mean as often as not. You’d think they wouldn’t have friends 'cuz who could stand them? But surgeons, are like a bad cold. Nasty, but persistent. Surgeons: nasty, aggressive, unstoppable, just the kind of people you want on your side when you’re really screwed.
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Bailey: [after the Chief unloaded to Bailey] Do I look like a therapist?!
Chief: You asked!
Bailey: : [looking guilty] I’ve lost Hunt and Torres, see I sent them to get Shepherd and ah…I never heard from them again… I was trying to solve the Shepherd situation for you sir, but it appears that I somehow made it three times worse.
[The Chief looks exasperated]
Bailey: So I’m telling you and my next move I believe is that I’m gonna call the police because I’m half convinced that they’re all dead…on a spit…with an one armed man turning them into shish kebabs sir… It’s my mind it just goes there.
Chief: You asked!
Bailey: : [looking guilty] I’ve lost Hunt and Torres, see I sent them to get Shepherd and ah…I never heard from them again… I was trying to solve the Shepherd situation for you sir, but it appears that I somehow made it three times worse.
[The Chief looks exasperated]
Bailey: So I’m telling you and my next move I believe is that I’m gonna call the police because I’m half convinced that they’re all dead…on a spit…with an one armed man turning them into shish kebabs sir… It’s my mind it just goes there.
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