Grey's Anatomy Quotes

Meredith: You're watching me sleep again?
Derek: You're cute when you sleep.
Meredith: Don't you sleep? Why are you always up before the alarm?
Derek: Well, I'm a light sleeper. It's no big deal.
Meredith: So something woke you up.
Derek: It's no big deal. It's just that, [long pause] you snore a little.
Meredith: What? I do not!
Derek: Yes you do! I love it. I find it charming that such a big noise can come from such a little person. [kisses her again and laughs]
Meredith: Do you know what's not charming?
Derek: What?
Meredith: Your morning breath.
Derek: I'm sorry? What?
Meredith: I'm just saying, seeing how you're always up before me, you might consider brushing your teeth.
Derek: Ok, this is me brushing my teeth.
Meredith: Thank you
Derek: [Derek laughs]

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Meredith: Oh, you have got to be kidding me? Where's George?
Derek: [groggily] Spent the night at the hospital.
Meredith: And you slept in his bed! All night?
Derek: No, right after you fell asleep.
Meredith: So you're telling me that my snoring is so bad, how did you deal with it for all those nights before I found out about your wife?
Izzie: [walks past] He usually sleeps on the couch, sets an alarm and gets back in bed before you wake up.
Derek: Yeah, didn't want to hurt your feelings.
Meredith: [smacks Derek with a pillow] Oh, I'm going to do more than hurt your feelings.

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Meredith: [to Derek] I'm a girl with abandonment issues. You have to sleep with me from now on.

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George: Er, Izzie, t-the t-the check! It's not er-, it's not- D-did you drop it? It's not here! Izzie, it's not here.
Izzie: I deposited it, okay?
George: You didn't deposit it in the garbage disposal or something like that, did you?
Izzie: It's at the bank, okay George? So just shut up about it already.
George: I-it's at the bank? It's earning interest?
Izzie: Did I just not say shut up about it already?
George: Izzie. It's real now. Money could travel. It could buy things. It could buy many, many things. That's a- It's a lot of money, Izzie!
Izzie: Shut up about it, George!
George: I'm just saying. I'm just saying life is short. You know it's like cancer happens and surgery happens and you know, you got [pause] rosebuds! [hits her with a piece of cloth] You got 8.7 million rosebuds, Izzie! [hits her again] Now go spend some rosebuds, that's what I'm saying.
Izzie: [loud sizzling noise] You made me burn my french toast.
George: [hits her yet again] You can buy new french toast!

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Bailey: [after Izzie helped pay for a patient's surgery] You spent 300 grand, so you could scrub in on the surgery?
Izzie: No?
Bailey: No?
Izzie: I spent the 3- Have you seen that girl? Her life is miserable. She's desperate. She'll never have a date. She'll never wear high heels. She'll never feel normal. I spent 300 grand because it's a good thing.
Bailey: [long pause] I was hoping you would tell me you spent the money so you could scrub in.

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George: Why did you do the surgery once you saw that the cancer had spread?
Bailey: George.
George: He asked you. He asked you to do it no matter what?
Chief: We have to honor our patients' wishes.
George: [to Bailey] You said you would be straight with me. [turns to Chief] He could have lived for weeks. Or months. We could have had months with him. My mom, she could have had months with him!
Chief: He wanted to fight the cancer, George.
George: He didn't know any better! You knew better! You shouldn't have done it! You shouldn't have done it!

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Mark: If you'd had the baby, we'd be together in New York right now; it wouldn't be raining and even if it was, we wouldn't care because we'd be together. We'd be together. And I'd have a family instead of walking pneumonia and an ex-best friend who hates me.
Addison You didn't want to raise a child, Mark. You just wanted to trump Derek, you wanted to to win.
Mark: Don't make this my fault. You didn't want a baby.
Addison No, I did want a baby, Mark! The last woman you slept with before I left New York, Charlene, the peds nurse, did you think that she was the only one that I knew about? You're rewriting history Mark. We wouldn't still be together. We weren't a great couple and you would have made a terrible father, Mark. I did want a baby, I did. I just...I just didn't want one with you.

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Cristina: There's a club. The "Dead Dads" club. And you can't be in it until you're in it. You can try to understand, you can sympathize but until you feel that loss- My dad died when I was nine. George, I'm really sorry you had to join the club.
George: I. [pause] I don't know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn't.
Cristina: Yeah, that never really changes.

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Meredith: [voiceover] No one believes that their life will turn out just kind of okay. We all think we are going to be great. And from the day we decide to be surgeons, we are filled with expectation. Expectations of the trails we will blaze, the people we will help, the difference we will make. Great expectations of who we will be, where we will go. And then we get there.

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[Izzie knocks on George's bedroom door]
Izzie: George, can I come in? I made you some cookies and brownies and muffins, of course, I always make muffins.
Callie: [comes out from room] Thank God you're here. I can't take it anymore. Three times already tonight, and he's getting ready for a fourth.
Izzie: What are you talking about? Oh. Oh, eew.
Callie: No, no I get it, you're crying, you're depressed and I know we all deal in different ways, but this is not grieving, this is my legs being bent in ways my legs do not go. A-And I know, I know his dad died, and I get it, I feel horrible for him.
Izzie: [laughs] I can give you guys some privacy, I can go far far away...
Callie: [cuts her off, whispers] No no! No! No! You stay. You take over for me, okay?
Izzie: Callie Torres!
Callie: No! I don't- Not like that, I mean. I am giving him to you. You are now officially on George Watch 2007, OK, you are his friend. Yay! And I need a break. I need to heal. I need to heal.
Izzie: No! No! What am I supposed to do?
Callie: I need to heal. I need to heal. Please, I need to heal.
George: Callie?
Callie: [after she and Izzie both freeze at George's call] Thank you, goodbye. [flees]
Izzie: No, Callie!
George: [coming out from room, naked] What is taking you so- [Izzie stares at George and he realizes, and hides behind the door] Oh!
Izzie: [averts her eyes and stifling a smile] Er- s-she had to go. Are you hungry?

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Cristina: I was right. I swear I really believe what I did was right. I don't want you to forgive me. Frankly, I'd find it patronizing if you did. Because... while I know I was right, you think I'm wrong. Which doesn't matter...because... I'm in this. I'm in this for the long haul. And I'm in this to finish the race. So if that means I don't win this one, then fine. I don't win. You win. I'm talking. See? I'm talking first. You win.
Burke: Marry me. Marry me, Cristina Yang.

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George: I don't want to waste another minute.
Callie: I can't have sex with you again, George. Ok? I can't- I just- I- Enough with the sex.
George: Since my dad died, I feel like someone ripped out my stomach, filled the hole with asphalt. I laugh every time I remember I'm never going to talk to him again because it just sounds like the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I can't believe it's real. But every time I look at you- I feel better. It shocks me. It knocks my wind out, but it's true. I don't have to have sex with you, I'd be happy just look at you from across the room. And even that, anything, any piece of you. And, hopefully, all of you... that'd be the best thing. Because I love you.
Callie: George.
George: [gets on one knee] Marry me? Will you marry me?

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Meredith: [voiceover] We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

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Meredith: [voiceover] As surgeons, we live in a world of worse case scenarios. We cut ourselves off from hoping for the best because too many times the best doesn’t happen. But every now and then something extraordinary occurs and suddenly best case scenarios seem possible. And every now and then something amazing happens, and against our better judgment we start to have hope.

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Izzie: [when she sees Callie's ring] Oh, that's so great. Tiny diamonds are great because you know no one will ever try to steal it.

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Meredith: How's George?
Izzie: Medically he's fine, emotionally he's a little stunted if you ask me. You don't marry the rebound girl. Am I right?
Cristina: You don't marry anyone on a whim.
Meredith: No, he needs our support.
Izzie: He doesn't need us, he's got his Vegas show-wife.

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Meredith: I'm not sure refusing treatment is what you wanna do-
Ellis: Apparently, what I want doesn't matter! It isn't even legally binding! So it's really about what you want, Meredith. You're in charge!
Meredith: You think that I like making these decisions for you? You think it's fun to get calls from the nursing home asking whether I was planning on giving the nurse, who changes you every morning a Christmas tip? But I do it. Because you have managed to alienate everybody else in your life and I am the only one, so I have to step up and do it. [voice wavering] You wanna know why I'm so unfocused? So ordinary? You wanna know what happened to me? You! You happened to me!
Ellis: Then let me refuse the heart surgery.
Meredith: No!
Ellis: Why not?!
Meredith: Because killing my mother is not gonna be another thing that happens to me.

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Meredith: [voiceover] As doctors, we're trained to give our patients just the facts. But what our patients really want to know is- will the pain go away? Will I feel better? Am I cured? What our patients really want to know is- is there hope? But, inevitably, there are times when you find yourself in the worst case scenario. When the patient's body has betrayed them and all the science we have to offer has failed them. When the worst case scenario comes true, and clinging to hope is all we've got left.

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Meredith: [voiceover] Disappearances happen in science. Disease can suddenly fade away, tumors go missing, and we open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. Its unexplained It’s rare, but it happens. We call it mis-diagnosis say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn’t know we had disappears, do we miss it?

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Meredith: I'm a surgeon. I do the rescuing. You are not my knight in shining whatever.
Derek: So we're gonna fight because I pulled you out of the tub.
Meredith: You have a place. You could sleep at it. And then you don't have to pull me out of the bathtub. You're everywhere, all the time, saying things.
Derek: This is the happy ever after part. And in the happily ever after, the guy is there all the time, saying things and the girls love it!
Meredith: Go to work, I'll see you there.
Derek: And just for the record? I am your knight in shining whatever.

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[Addison chastises Mark, Preston and Derek for commenting on Richard's new hair color]
Addison: He is alone! All alone! Do any of you even know what that's like? [motions to Preston] Lives with Cristina, [looks Derek up and down] dates the perfect twelve year old, [looks at Mark] Manwhore! His wife left him! After twenty-five years of marriage! So if the man wants to dye his hair for the ladies, let him dye his hair for the ladies! Leave him be.

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Callie: This is weird. Weird. This is weird, right?
Bailey: I need more triage tags…
Callie: Working with someone I’m married to is weird. Here, I’m his boss and his wife. At work, I’m giving him orders, in bed... he’s giving me...
Bailey: Stop! Right there, I don’t need to know this. I’m tired, I’m busy. While I will concede that you and O’Malley have some challenges to overcome, I’m asking you to remember that this day is a marathon and my mind can only hold what it needs to know, your sex life cannot be held in my mind today. [pause] Ever! It cannot be in my mind ever! Never!
Callie: Whatever.

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Cristina: Meredith, I have a thing...news.
Meredith: You’re not pregnant again, are you? Cause I can’t handle the extra months of bitchiness.

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Meredith: [voiceover] Like I said, disappearances happen. Pains go phantom. Blood stops running and people, people fade away. There's more I have to say, so much more, but... I've disappeared.

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Burke: What is your problem?
Cristina: You know everyone’s back. Everyone’s back except her. And I listen to her. Everyday, about her McLove life, her McDreamy, her McCrap. And the one day, the one day I have a thing she disappears.
Burke: Meredith, this is about Meredith.
Cristina: She doesn’t know yet.
Burke: Meredith?
Cristina: She’s my person.
Burke: Right. And if Meredith doesn’t approve, then what?
Cristina: This, this is not about getting her approval, its about…
Burke: What?
Cristina: Telling her makes it, makes it…. If I murdered someone, she’s the person I’d call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor.
Burke: Ok, now, you’re likening someone here to a corpse. I’m done.
Cristina: She’s my person.

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Izzie: Oh, Cristina, oh my God, you are not going to believe what I just did, I'm going to tell you, but you're not going to believe me, you're going to think I made the whole thing up... I drilled a hole into this guy's skull. Several holes, actually, with a drill I borrowed from a guy named Vince, packed the hole with freaking tissue and then brought him back here, and then now I get to scrub in on his craniotomy. --- It was like a ride, this crazy rollercoaster ride with, like adrenaline shooting out of my ears. You would think that my hands would be shaking but they weren't, there was no shaking. Did I mention the drill? — The scene where I was a rockstar, by the way.

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Bailey: What do we got?
Paramedic: Jane Doe. She's hypothermic and dropping.
Derek: She's not a Jane Doe. It's Meredith Grey. It's Meredith.
Bailey: Derek! Derek! How long has she been down?
Derek: I don't know. She's alive. She's alive.

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Cristina: It's Meredith?
Alex: Yeah.
Cristina: Are you sure? Did you see her? Because it could be any...
Alex: It's Meredith.
Cristina: Oh. Oh. Oh.
Izzie: She will come through this.
George: You don't know that.
Izzie: She will come through this.
George: People die.
Izzie: I know people die. People die in front of us everyday, but I believe Meredith will survive this. I believe, I believe, I...I believe in the good. I believe that it's been a hell of a year and I believe that in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary we will all be okay. I believe a lot of things. I believe that...I believe that Denny is always with me. And I believe that if I eat a tub of butter and no one sees me the calories don't count. And I believe that surgeons who prefer staples over stitches are just lazy. I believe that you are a man that made a terrible mistake marrying Callie and I believe that because I'm your best friend I can tell you this and we can be okay. I believe that even though you made this mistake you will be okay. I believe we survive, George. I believe that believing we survive is what makes us survive.

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Meredith: [voiceover] There are medical miracles. Being worshippers of the altar of science, we don't like to believe miracles exist. But they do. Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen.

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Meredith: I was swimming. I was fighting. And then I thought, just for a second, I thought ‘What’s the point?’ And then I let go. I stopped fighting. Don’t tell anybody.
Denny: Okay
Meredith: What?
Denny: Izzie.
Meredith: You can see her?
Denny: No. Sometimes we’d be at the same place at exactly the same time and I can almost hear her voice. It’s like I’m touching her. I like to believe she knows I’m there. That’s all you get. That’s it. Moments with the people you love. And they’ll move on and you’ll want them to move on. But still, Meredith, that’s all you get. Moments.
Meredith: Is this really happening?
Denny: I don’t know. This is your afterlife, not mine.

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