Grey's Anatomy Quotes

Derek [to Richard]: Get out!
Richard: No.
Derek: Get out, Richard! Get out!
Richard: Look, I've destroyed lives before. Several in fact, and yours is not one of them. Now, I sent the woman you love out here to help you. I sent the woman who loves you, out here, to bring you back to your life. If you ruin it with her, that's on you. I don't accept it. You're scared, you're drunk. You don't know which way is up. You threw a punch at your best friend, and you threw a ring at Meredith, and now you wanna throw me out. I'm not accepting it. Because, I'm older than you, and I've been where you are. You've been drunk for a few days, I was drunk for years. And I know you're gonna need at least one friend when you decide to come out of that hole you're digging. I hope you come out of it soon, and I'll be here when you do.
Derek: I don't think I can get her back.
Richard: Did you call her?
Derek: What am I going to say?
Richard: I had an affair for years and when Adele found out somehow she... She took me back... you can make your way back from anything.

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George: [to Pierce, Megan and Steve] This is year one of your residency. You turn on each other now, you're not gonna make it.
Meredith: 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.
George: That was very Bailey.

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Meredith: [voiceover] Practicing medicine doesn’t lend itself well to the making of friends. Maybe because life and mortality are in our faces all the time. Maybe because in staring down death everyday, we’re forced to know that life, every minute is borrowed time. And each person, we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line. For this reason, I know some doctors who just don’t bother making friends at all. But the rest of us, we make it our job to move that line. To push each loss as far away as we can.

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Alex: [voiceover] Surgeons are all messed up. We’re butchers, messed up knife happy butchers. We cut people up, we move on. Patients die on our watch, we move on. We cause trauma, we suffer trauma. We don’t have time to worry about all the blood and death and crap it really makes us feel.

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Alex: You think talking will help? You think a dixie cup of my swimmers will make everything okay? It's crap. This is crap! You just cant go messing with peoples heads like that! Even if she freezes the embryos you think, you think we'll get a chance to use them?! You think she'll still be here? You think she'll survive all this?! 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 to..and now she's..this is wrong. This isn't how it's supposed to happen.
Meredith: I know
Alex: It's crap.
Meredith: I know
Alex: I hate this.
Meredith: I know
Alex: This isn't...this isn't how we were...this isn't how I want to do this. This isn't how Izzie and I were supposed to make a baby.

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Alex: See the family, make sure they don't come back in here..give her a break from all the "love"
Joyce: No. They're impatient. It's been a long time. But they always come. They are my people. People keep you going. People are better than...no people.

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Chief Wait. Um. Wait. No. You can’t take that one.
Meredith Why not?
Chief: I said don't take it.
Meredith: I will take the elevator I want to take.
[Chief blocks elevator door. Door closes and Meredith presses the button for a new elevator. Other elevator door opens.]
Chief: Well go on.
Derek: Hey! Come on in. This is a CT of Katie Bryce. 15 year old female severed aneurysm.
Meredith: From a fall during rhythmic gymnastics, I remember.
Derek: It was the first surgery we ever scrubbed in together on right? Our first save. Right here is a cerebral cyst. Tough save, but we did it. I kissed you in the stairwell after the surgery. And this right here is where Dr. Bailey kicked you out of the surgery because she caught us in your driveway in my car. And right here, this was a 7 hour craniotomy and you held the clamp the entire time, never flinched. That’s when I knew you were going to be an incredible surgeon. Beth Monroe, made our clinical trial a success by surviving. You talked me into putting her under. That’s when I knew I needed you. And this is today. The post op head CT of Izzie Stevens. See that, right there? Tumor free. Because of you. You got me into the OR. If there’s a crisis you don’t freeze. You move forward. You get the rest of us to move forward. Because you’ve seen worse. You’ve survived worse. And you know we’ll survive too. You say you’re dark and twisty. It’s not a flaw. It’s a strength. It makes you who you are. I’m not going to get down on one knee. I’m not going to ask a question. I love you Meredith Grey. And I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
Meredith: And I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

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Alex: [voiceover]: Doesn’t matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives, trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up."

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Meredith: [voiceover] Defeat isn’t an option. Not for surgeons. We don’t back away from the table til the last breaths long gone. Terminals 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.

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Meredith: [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 to 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 fighting in the first place.

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Meredith: [voiceover] Remember when we were little and we would accidentally bite a kid on the playground. Our teachers would go, “Say you’re sorry”, and we would say it, but we wouldn’t mean it cause the stupid kid we bit, totally deserved it. But as we get older, making amends isn’t so simple. After the playground days are over you can’t just say it, you have to mean it. Of course when you become a doctor, sorry is not a happy word. It either means you’re dying and I can’t help. Or it means this is really going to hurt.

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Charlie: You think I don’t know that? You think I want to cut my leg off? Of course not. Am I sure about this? No. The only think I’m sure about is I am in hell right now. That I am sure of. I’ve lost everything, everything I’ve worked for, everything I’ve cared about. I’ve traded in for a 6 days a week pay pill that doesn’t even work. So don’t waste both our time to scare me because you do not scare me Dr Torres. After everything I’ve been through nothing scares me. So are we going to do this or not?

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Meredith: [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.

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Meredith: [voiceover] Doctors spend a lot of time focused on the future, planning it, working toward it. But at some point you start to realize your life is happening now. Not after med school, not after residency, right now. This is it. It’s here. Blink and you’ll miss it.

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Cristina: Nice work today? Seriously?
Owen: I'm sorry?
Cristina: 'Run to my truck.' You've got O'Malley clipping bleeders and you're telling me to run to your truck.
Owen: You know what my truck looks like. O'Malley doesn't. And that- that run you took, it saved a guy's life.
Cristina: Yeah, well, all day... all day you were teaching O'Malley and you ignored me.
Owen: O'Malley wants to be a trauma surgeon. You've already declared cardio. I didn't do anything wrong today. I treated you like I would anyone else.
Cristina: No, not like anyone else. 'Take care now.' What is that? What are you, like, you know, happy now? What- what are you? You know, just a "choke 'em and forget 'em" kinda guy? "Hey there now. Take care now. Nice work, Yang." What is this?
Owen: It's my shrink. My shrink gave me these sentences. We- we, uh, we came up with them together. They're all 3-word sentences so I'd have things to say to you instead of the three words that are... that are killing me. The three words that you know I feel but I can't say them, because it would be cruel to say them because I am no good for you. I don't want to torture you. I don't want to look at you longingly when I know I can't be with you. So, yeah, I'm smiling and I'm saying 'take care now.' I'm letting you off the hook. I'm trying. I'm trying so hard to let you off the hook. I'm trying to make it right, what I did to you. Can't you see that? I'm just trying to make it right.
Cristina: Take care now.

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Mark: What? Tree girl made it through?
Callie: I can't lie. Even if they think I'm wrong, even if they don't understand, even if they think I'm crazy. I'm me. They're supposed to accept me, they're supposed to support me, they're supposed to love me, ya know? I cant lie.

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Meredith: Oh great, is this another heart to heart?
Chief: I know you don't like me, and you have every right not to like me, I have abused my power but now I'm here on your turf. What I need to say, what I need to say is, I saw what your mother was doing, I saw how neglected you were, I saw her drive your father off and I spent a lot of time beating myself up about that, but what does that do for you, nothing, nothing. I wasn't your advocate, I didn't fight for you, I never stood up for you. I let myself off the hook, I told myself I was young and I didn't know any better, but I did know better, I wasn't much younger than you are now. I should've fought for you Meredith, like you fought for that child today, I told myself that I wasn't your father, that it wasn't my responsibility, that I was right not to but in, I let myself off the hook. You were helpless, you were a baby. A beautiful, smart, funny, little girl, and no one stood up for you. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

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Meredith: [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 re-write a wrong even if 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 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.

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Izzie: [voiceover] You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It’s the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up being the biggest. And today was the wedding. It was beautiful. Perfect.

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Becca: [graduation speech] Today’s the day my life begins. Today I become a citizen of the world. Today I become a grown up. Today I become accountable to someone other than myself and my parents. Accountable for more than my grades. Today I become accountable to the world, to the future, to all the possibilities life has to offer. Starting today, my job is to show up, wide-eyed and willing and ready. For what? For anything. For everything. To take on life. To take on love. To take on the responsibility and possibility. Today my friends our lives begin and I for one, can’t wait.

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Alex: [wedding vows] Today is the day my life begins. All my life I’ve been just me, just a smart-mouthed kid. Today I become a man. Today I become a husband. Today I become accountable to someone other than myself. Today I become accountable to you, to our future, to all the possibilities our marriage has to offer. Together no matter what happens, I’ll be ready. For anything. For everything. To take on life. To take on love. To take on the possibility and responsibility. Today Izzie Stevens, our life begins. And I for one, can’t wait.

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Izzie: [voiceover] You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days. You know, it was a beautiful day.

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Meredith: [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.

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George: Are you sure you want to? Why do you want to cut off your leg just to go to the war? Don’t you have family?
Charlie: You know what it’s like to have family who don’t know you? Don’t get you or maybe don’t like you?
George: Yeah, actually I have brothers.
Charlie: Me too. So there’s that family. The guys I grew up with and we’ve got nothing in common. And then there’s my guys in Iraq, my real family. Whatever we got into, we’re in it together. But here, I’m alone, I’m nobody. And I’ve tried, you know, I’ve tried fitting in here, I’ve tried being a regular person, I’ve tried getting a job but there aren’t any. There are a lot of thing I’ve wanted to be in my life, a lot of things that I’ve wanted to do. But none of them is here.

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Cristina: She just had brain surgery, an aggressive course of IL2. She needs rest.
Alex: She needs to exercise whatever memory she’s got left before it turns to mush
Cristina: Well she’s not going heal with you barking orders at her like a caveman.
Alex: Butt out Yang.
Cristina: You know she’s my patient. I don’t care if you’re her husband.
Alex: Look, she…
Cristina: You wanna see how fast I can get your visiting hours down to zero?
Alex: She signed a DNR. She signed a fricking DNR and made me promise me that she’d come out of this with a life, not in a hospital bed, not with no brain. I had to promise she’d have a life. You wanna know what happens if she can’t make no new memories? Forget about being a doctor. She’s going to need round the clock baby sitters. We get an apartment together, she can’t even find her way to the damn toilet, track her on her ankle in case god forbids, she wanders out the front door.
Cristina: Alex, you can handle this, she will get better.
Alex: Maybe, maybe not. It’s on me. Her future is on me.

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Meredith: How’s she doing? Any better?
Cristina: No.
Meredith: Damn. Well I’m going city hall to go do the thing.
Cristina: Seriously? It doesn’t seem like the day for it.
Meredith: Look at Alex, He’s working so hard all day and she doesn’t know. And if she stays like this, she may never know how much he loves her. And that girl Amanda, she in there loving a stranger. She thinks that’s her prince charming. I mean he’s probably going to die today. Chances are. So yeah, I’m going to go get married because I think it’s important to take the time to tell the people you love how much you love them while they can hear you. I love you Cristina Yang.
Cristina: You have changed.
Meredith: Maybe I have. What?
Cristina: I’m going to hug you.

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Derek: Meredith...
Meredith: No, you know let's go, we gotta go. We gotta run to city hall, we'll come back, you'll check on Izzie, we'll monitor John Doe, I'll go talk George out of joining the army!
Derek: Look, we'll do this another day-
Meredith: There is no other day! Everyday is like this, everyday there is a crisis, there's no time.
Derek: Meredith...
Meredith: I love you and i do want to marry you, today. But there is no time.
Derek: [Cups her face with his hands] Do you have a piece of paper?
Meredith: For what?
Derek: I want to be with you forever. And you want to be with me forever. In order to do that, we need to make vows. A commitment. A contract. [Pause] Give me, a piece of paper.
Meredith: I don't! I-I-I don't...I have post-its. [Hands him posts-its and a pen. Derek goes and sits on the bench]
Derek: Okay...what do we want to promise each other?
Meredith: That you'll love me, even when you hate me.
Derek: To love each other...even when we hate each other. [writes it down on the post-its] No running. Ever. Nobody walks out. [Meredith joins him on the benches] No matter what happens.
Meredith: No running.
Derek: What else?
Meredith: That we'll take care of each other even when we're old and smelly and senile. And...if i get Alzheimer's and i forget you...
Derek: I will you remind you who i am, every day. [They smile at each other] To take care when old, senile, smelly. This...is..forever. [Derek finishes writing on the post-it, then gives it and the pen to Meredith] Sign.
Meredith: This is our wedding? A post-it?
Derek: Mhmm. Well, if you sign it. [Meredith signs it happily and then hands it back to Derek]
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Meredith: [voiceover] Did you say it? "I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life." Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around. Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.

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Meredith: [voiceover] According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, when we're 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 beg. We plead. We offer everything we have, we offer 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’ve done everything we can. We let go. We let go and move into acceptance.

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Meredith: He wrote in my hand
Lexie, Bailey, Hunt, Cristina, Shepherd, Sloan, Callie, Chief: What do you mean he wrote in your hand?
Meredith: He just grabbed my hand, squeezed it and he wrote with his finger.
Derek: He wrote with his finger?
Meredith: You know in my hand, he wrote 007.
Bailey: [grabs Meredith's hand and proceeds to write on it using her finger] Okay, what did I write?
Meredith: Joe?
Bailey: NO!! I did not write JOE!
Cristina: Are you serious!
Chief: You mean this might not be O'Malley?
Mark: This is funny.
Chief: Did anybody try to phone him? Can we get him on the phone?
[Everybody retrieves their cell phones and start calling]
Meredith: I'm telling you he squeezed my hand.
Bailey: [hushes Meredith] Shut it! You don't get to talk anymore!! You don't get to talk ever again!!
Meredith: I could have sworn it was George.

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