Grey's Anatomy Quotes
Meredith: [voiceover] No matter how many plans we make or steps we follow, we never know how our day is going to end up. We’d prefer to know, of course, what curveballs will be thrown our way. It’s the accidents that always turn out to be the most interesting parts of our day, the people we never expected to show up, a turn of events we never would have chose for ourselves. All of a sudden you find yourself somewhere you never expected to be and its nice, or it takes some getting used to. Still, maybe you’ll find yourself appreciating it somewhere down the line. So you go to sleep each night thinking about tomorrow, going over your plans, preparing for them, and hoping that whatever accidents come your way will be happy ones.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Surgeons aren’t complacent people. We don’t put our feet up. We don’t sit still. Whatever the game is, we like to win. And once we win, we get a new game. We push ourselves; residents, attending. It doesn’t matter how much we achieve. If you’re a climber there’s always another mountain.
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Callie: Find a grown up who wants what you want, and date, like a grown up.
Mark: I don't know what that means.
Mark: I don't know what that means.
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Meredith: [voiceover] They take pictures of mountain climbers at the top of a mountain. They’re smiling, ecstatic, triumphant. They don’t take pictures along the way cos who wants to remember the rest of it. We push ourselves because we have to, not because we like it. The relentless climb, the pain and anguish of taking it to the next level. Nobody takes pictures of that. Nobody wants to remember. We just wanna remember the view from the top. The breathtaking moment at the edge of the world. That’s what keeps us climbing. And it’s worth the pain. That’s the crazy part. It’s worth anything.
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Owen: [voiceover] Dying isn’t easy. The body was designed to stay alive; thick skull, strong heart, keen senses. When the body starts to fail, medicine takes over. Surgeons are arrogant enough to think there's no one they can’t save. Like I said dying isn’t easy.
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Owen: [voiceover] Living is better than dying... until it's not. But even if letting a person die is the right thing to do, it's not what surgeons are built for. We are arrogant and competitive. We don’t like to lose and death feels like a loss even when we know it’s not. We know it’s time. We know it’s right. We know we did everything we could. It is hard to shake that feeling that you could've done more.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Psychologists believe that every aspect of our lives, all our thought processes & behavior patterns, are the direct result of our relationship to our parents. That every relationship that we have is really just another version of that first relationship. It's just us trying over & over again to get it right.
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Derek: If anything should happen to me, I don't want it to just be you.
Meredith: Well we would make pretty babies.
Derek: So you're thinking about it?
Meredith: Oh, I'm thinking about it.
Meredith: Well we would make pretty babies.
Derek: So you're thinking about it?
Meredith: Oh, I'm thinking about it.
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Meredith: [voiceover] It's the most important job in the world. You probably should need a license to do it, but then most of us wouldn't even pass the written exam. Some people are naturals. They were born to do it. Some have other gifts. But the good news is biology dictates you don't have to do it alone. You can waste your whole life wondering, but the only way to find out what kind of parent you'd be is to finally stop talking about it and just do it.
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Meredith: [voiceover] We're doctors - we're trained to care for human beings and we're pretty sure we know what to look for. Cuts, infection, genetic mutation.
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Callie: I get it. You watch parents go through horrible, unimaginable pain every day. And you went through horrible, unimaginable pain when you lost your brother and your parents never got over it. But if we had a baby- our baby's not gonna be one of those kids in your NICU. Our baby won't be your brother. I mean, knock on wood, but- Do you know how happy our baby would be?
Arizona: I'm not broken. My lack of wanting to have a baby is not some pathology that you can pat yourself on the back for having diagnosed. I like my life, the way that it is. I thought I liked it with you in it. I hope I'm not wrong.
Arizona: I'm not broken. My lack of wanting to have a baby is not some pathology that you can pat yourself on the back for having diagnosed. I like my life, the way that it is. I thought I liked it with you in it. I hope I'm not wrong.
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Meredith: [voiceover] The skin is the largest organ in the body. It protects us. Holds us together. Literally lets us know how we’re feeling. The skin can be soft and vulnerable. Highly sensitive. Easy to break. Skin doesn’t matter to a surgeon, we’ll cut right through it, go inside, find out the secrets underneath. It takes delicacy and sensitivity.
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Meredith: [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.
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Meredith: [voiceover] It's a common belief that positive thinking leads to a happier healthier life. As children we are told to smile, be cheerful, and put on a happy face. As adults we are told to look on the bright side, to make lemonade, and see glasses as half full. Sometimes reality can get in the way of our ability to act the happy part though. Your health can fail, boyfriends can cheat, friends can disappoint. It's in these moments, when you just want to get real, drop the act, and be your true scared unhappy self.
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Mark: Lex, I'm still in love with you. I tried not to be, but it didn't work. And Sloane's gone. There's no baby. And I don't wanna sleep around. I want another chance. I'm in love with you.
Lexie: Karev....he's....Mark, I have a boyfriend.
Mark: I know. I'm saying you could have a husband.
Lexie: Karev....he's....Mark, I have a boyfriend.
Mark: I know. I'm saying you could have a husband.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer is simple - to be happy. Maybe it's this expectation though of wanting to be happy that just keeps us from ever getting there. Maybe the more we try to will ourselves to states of bliss, the more confused we get - to the point where we don't recognize ourselves. Instead we just keep smiling - trying to be the happy people we wish we were. Until it eventually hits us, it's been there all along. Not in our dreams or our hopes but in the known, the comfortable, the familiar.
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Meredith: [voiceover] For most people, the hospital is a scary place. A hostile place. A place where bad things happen. Most people would prefer church, or school, or home, but I grew up here. While my mom was on rounds, I learned to read in the OR gallery, I played in the morgue, I colored with crayons on old ER charts. The hospital was my church, my school, my home; the hospital was my safe place, my sanctuary. I love it here. Correction: loved it here.
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Meredith: Do you wanna talk about it?
Cristina: No.
Meredith: Owen I mean.
Cristina: I know what you mean. I don’t want to…I can’t…It’s just…He doesn’t know, who he loves and if it’s not me then…I don’t want to talk about it. Let’s talk about something else.
Meredith: Okay. You realize you’re about to be a godmother.
Cristina: I’m godmother? What do I have to do? Talk god to the fetus? 'Cause I’m not gonna do that.
Meredith: It means, you take care of the kid if I die.
Cristina: Derek takes care of the kid if you die.
Meredith: If we die, if we die.
Cristina: So, if you and Derek are on a plane crash and you die, the kid is mine?
Meredith: Yes.
Cristina: I have to admit, I kind of hope you and Derek die just a little bit. So I can raise the kid with decent priorities.
Meredith: I have priorities.
Cristina: Oh?
Meredith: Surgery.
Cristina: Oh, you can raise a good little surgeon. I take it back.
Cristina: No.
Meredith: Owen I mean.
Cristina: I know what you mean. I don’t want to…I can’t…It’s just…He doesn’t know, who he loves and if it’s not me then…I don’t want to talk about it. Let’s talk about something else.
Meredith: Okay. You realize you’re about to be a godmother.
Cristina: I’m godmother? What do I have to do? Talk god to the fetus? 'Cause I’m not gonna do that.
Meredith: It means, you take care of the kid if I die.
Cristina: Derek takes care of the kid if you die.
Meredith: If we die, if we die.
Cristina: So, if you and Derek are on a plane crash and you die, the kid is mine?
Meredith: Yes.
Cristina: I have to admit, I kind of hope you and Derek die just a little bit. So I can raise the kid with decent priorities.
Meredith: I have priorities.
Cristina: Oh?
Meredith: Surgery.
Cristina: Oh, you can raise a good little surgeon. I take it back.
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Arizona: Do not alarm the makers of the tiny humans. They will eat you alive.
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Arizona: I really thought that was a joke.
Callie: Sick joke.
Arizona: Excuse me?
Callie: Nothing
Arizona: What?...Oh, you can't be on the same floor with me. That's a hardship for you?
Callie: Ah...Yeah...Frankly it is. [goes away]
Callie: Sick joke.
Arizona: Excuse me?
Callie: Nothing
Arizona: What?...Oh, you can't be on the same floor with me. That's a hardship for you?
Callie: Ah...Yeah...Frankly it is. [goes away]
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Derek: I know your loss. I lost my father when I was a kid. Two guys killed my father for his watch right in front of me. Right in front of me. I didn’t become a doctor because I wanted to be God. I became a doctor because I wanted to save lives. Look at me. Please look at me in the eye. I’m a human being. I make mistakes. I’m flawed. We all are. Today, I think for you is just a mistake. You want justice. You want somebody to pay. You’re a good man. I can see that in your eyes. Can you see it in mine? Can you?
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Derek: [voiceover] The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then there are the choices that matter. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. To fight or to give in. To live. Or die. Live or die. That’s the important choice. And it’s not always in our hands.
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Meredith: [to Mr. Clark] Shoot me.
Cristina: Meredith.
Meredith: 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 were hurt, shoot me. I’m your eye for an eye.
Cristina: Meredith!
Meredith: Tell Derek that I love him and that I’m sorry.
Cristina: Wait wait wait wait wait. She’s pregnant. You wouldn’t shoot a woman who’s pregnant.
Cristina: Meredith.
Meredith: 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 were hurt, shoot me. I’m your eye for an eye.
Cristina: Meredith!
Meredith: Tell Derek that I love him and that I’m sorry.
Cristina: Wait wait wait wait wait. She’s pregnant. You wouldn’t shoot a woman who’s pregnant.
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Derek: I'm not gonna die, I promise.
Meredith: Good, 'cause that would be the worst breakup ever.
Meredith: Good, 'cause that would be the worst breakup ever.
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[[w: Richard Webber|Chief]: [to Mr. Clark] I’ve lived. I’ve really really lived. I’ve failed. I’ve been devastated. I’ve been broken. I’ve gone to hell and back. And I’ve also known joy. And passion. And I’ve had a great love. See death for me is not justice. It’s a…end of a beautiful journey. And I’m not afraid to die. The question is, are you? A life in prison or an afterlife…with your wife. Me or you? Your choice.
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Meredith: [voiceover] Every cell in the human body regenerates on average every seven years. Like snakes, in our own way we shed our skin. Biologically we are brand new people. We may look the same, we probably do, the change isn't visible at least in most of us, but we are all changed completely forever.
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Meredith: We are not better! [pause] Cristina, a psychiatrist given several opportunities has deemed me unfit to do my job.
Cristina: Well he'll get over it, just go back in a couple of days.
Meredith: You are not better!
Cristina: Well, in a couple of days I'll be better too.
Meredith: In a couple of days you'll be married.
Cristina: Are you trying to talk me out of this?
Meredith: Look at me and tell me you're sure.
Cristina: Okay, you know what? You don't get to do this. All you get to do, is help me break the tie between the lilies of the valley and the peonies. That's it.
Meredith: No, I do get to do this. Derek is the love of my life, but you're my soulmate. I do get to do this. I mean, why can't it wait six months? Your flowers aren't going anywhere! You broke up with him because he couldn't choose you. Just why does it have to be right now?
Cristina: I think, I think you should tell Derek about the miscarriage.
Meredith: We are talking about you.
Cristina: We are talking about us not being better? Then you need to tell him.
Meredith: He's not ready. He's not okay.
Cristina: You're not okay! You should tell him!
Cristina: Well he'll get over it, just go back in a couple of days.
Meredith: You are not better!
Cristina: Well, in a couple of days I'll be better too.
Meredith: In a couple of days you'll be married.
Cristina: Are you trying to talk me out of this?
Meredith: Look at me and tell me you're sure.
Cristina: Okay, you know what? You don't get to do this. All you get to do, is help me break the tie between the lilies of the valley and the peonies. That's it.
Meredith: No, I do get to do this. Derek is the love of my life, but you're my soulmate. I do get to do this. I mean, why can't it wait six months? Your flowers aren't going anywhere! You broke up with him because he couldn't choose you. Just why does it have to be right now?
Cristina: I think, I think you should tell Derek about the miscarriage.
Meredith: We are talking about you.
Cristina: We are talking about us not being better? Then you need to tell him.
Meredith: He's not ready. He's not okay.
Cristina: You're not okay! You should tell him!
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Cristina: I never gave you any crap about your post-it.
Meredith: You look beautiful.
Cristina: I know. How's Owen? Is he good?
Meredith: Owen's perfect. He's perfect.
Cristina: Thank you.
Meredith: You look beautiful.
Cristina: I know. How's Owen? Is he good?
Meredith: Owen's perfect. He's perfect.
Cristina: Thank you.
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Cristina: I think you're either born simple or you're born...me. I want to be the person who gets happy over finding the perfect dress.
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Meredith: [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 things 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. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again.
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