Grey's Anatomy Quotes Season 2

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head [2.1]

Meredith: To be a good surgeon you have to think like a surgeon. Emotions are messy. Tuck them neatly away and step into a clean sterile room where the procedure is simple. Cut, suture, and close. But sometimes you’re faced with a cut that won’t heal. A cut that rips its stitches wide open.

Meredith: Lets play a game of whose life sucks the most. I'll win. I always win.

Cristina: You don't want to play with me.

Meredith: Oh no, I do. I'll even go first. Derek is married, as in pig-headed adulterous liar married. [George spits out his beer]

Cristina: George...you have beer...coming from your nostrils.

Meredith: All right, your turn.

Cristina: I'm pregnant. I win. [Joe, the bartender, collapses] Okay, maybe Joe wins.

Alex: Dude hits like my sister.

Izzie: Oh, so by that definition, you got beat up by a girl.

Meredith: You're sleeping with someone?

George: What? Who?

Cristina: Why is that such a shock? Even George managed to get some action.

George: Uh, Correction! George got some syph.

Meredith: I wore my new lip gloss because my ex-boyfriend's wife looks like Isabella freakin' Rossellini and I'm like... me. I'm trying to outdo her when she's the victim here, how crazy is that?

George: Not crazy, you know... smart. Lip gloss prevents chapped lips. You... was that ex-boyfriend?

Meredith: I am an evil mistress.

George: But still... you look nice.

Burke: So, I have a question to ask. I checked the schedule, and I noticed that both you and I are off tonight. I made reservations. I have a favorite restaurant.

Cristina: None of those were questions.

Alex: Surgery is the only specialty where we don't waste time getting to know the patients. They're slabs of meat, we're butchers.

George: [Cristina grabs the chart of the patient from George] What are you doing?

Cristina: Uh… I’m on her side… but we are talking about some stand-still here… Recognize!

George: You know Joe?

Miranda: Oh, yeah. I was the only female intern my year. I didn't know anybody and nobody knew me. Except Joe. He knew me.

George: Oh. So you and Joe?

Miranda: All you people ever think about is how to get into somebody's pants. You're nasty. [Slaps George]

Miranda: That's why you got syphilis.

Chief: You and I both know she's the best in the field. Bringing Addie out was a business decision, nothing personal.

Derek: Oh, well, that's a relief. Not personal. It's personal to me!

Addison: Am I interrupting?

Chief: You're never interrupting.

Derek: She's always interrupting.

Derek: Addison, what are you doing here?

Addison: What are YOU doing here? You left everything -- your house, your wife, your practice. You had a life. And now you have a girlfriend in Seattle. She seems...sweet.

Alex: Oh, I think somebody likes me.

Joe: You want to freeze my body, drain my blood, and stop my heart? In under forty-five minutes? If you go over, is it free?

Alex: You don't want to go to County. I mean here they know how to kill you and bring you back, but at County they just know how to kill you.

Derek: I’m well aware of his recovery time. I’m the one who operated on him, remember?

Burke: I do, you operated, he survived, and he chose me to take over while he recruited your wife.

Derek: Clearly he has brain damage.

Cristina: What you don't speak now that you're chief?

Burke: What do you want?

Cristina: What...?

Burke: What do you want? You don't want to go out to dinner, you don't want to meet me in the on-call room, and you sure as hell don't want to talk to me. I could pretend that I know, but hey, I don't even have your home phone number. So what do you want!?

Pregnant Woman: [To Meredith] What does it take to go after another woman's husband?

George: [talking to himself] Oh, hi, chief. Nope, not much going on, well, other than your interim chief making out with my friend in the stairwell, but hey... sponge duty sucks.

Meredith: [walks up beside him] Talking to yourself now?

George: Yes. No. [Pause] Damn it. I'm a bad sponge. A leaky sponge. I'm gonna leak all the wrong secrets. I'm a bad liar. I can't even lie about talking to myself.

Derek: I got drunk and she took advantage of me. Or she got drunk and I took advantage of her. Well, we were drunk, definitely, and somebody took advantage. I like to look at it as my initiation into Seattle. What about you?

Burke: I don't have a story, I just wanted to hear yours

Cristina: You know what happens to pregnant interns. I'm not switching to vagina squad or spending my life popping zits. I'm too talented, surgery's my life.

Pregnant Woman: I really just wanted to put a face on the bitch that got my husband to throw away fifteen years of marriage.

Burke: Got a second?

Bailey: Depends on what you need

Burke: Who the hell is Dr. McDreamy?

[Bailey looks over at Derek and Addison talking]

Bailey: Me. I'm Dr. McDreamy. I'm tall, handsome. I like to lean against things, ponder the difficulties of dating beautiful women... I'm trying to be a surgeon here!

Chief: O'Malley, yell at me again and I'll snap you like a twig.

Joe: Hey, Sunshine!

Bailey: [to Derek] You're so damn stupid.

Derek: Meredith, I understand--

Meredith: Do you?! Somehow I doubt that. Because if you did, you would shut up, turn around and go back inside, because you would realize that I am this close to getting in my car and running you down in the PARKING LOT!!!

Derek: See there are moments for me, usually when I'm in the OR, when I just know what’s going to happen next

Derek: So I go upstairs, as I'm walking down the hall I try to prepare myself for what I'm going to see when I walk into my bedroom. I step on a man's jacket that doesn't belong to me. And everything I know...just shifts. Because the jacket that doesn't belong to me is a jacket that I recognize, what I know now is that when I go into my bedroom, I'm not just going to see that my wife is cheating on me. I'm going to see that my wife is cheating on me with Mark, who happened to be my best friend.... I walked out, flew out to Seattle.

Meredith: And then you met me.

Derek: And then I met you.

Meredith: What was I to you? The girl you screwed to get over being screwed?

Derek: You were like coming up for fresh air. It's like I was drowning and you saved me. That's all I know.

Meredith: It's not enough.

Meredith: They say that practice makes perfect. Theory is– the more you think like a surgeon, the more you become like one, the better you get at remaining neutral, clinical, cut, suture, close - the harder it becomes to turn it off. To stop thinking like a surgeon, and remember what it means to think like a human being.

Cristina: The clinic has a policy. They wouldn't let me confirm my appointment unless I designated an emergency contact...person. Someone to be there just in case, and to...help me home...after... Anyway, I put your name down. That's why I told you I'm pregnant. You're my person.

Meredith: I am?

Cristina: Yea, you are. Whatever.

Meredith: Whatever.

Cristina: He dumped me.

[Meredith puts her arm around Cristina]

Cristina: You realize this constitutes hugging?

Meredith: Shut up...I'm your person.

 Enough Is Enough (No More Tears) [2.2]

Meredith: I have an aunt who whenever she poured anything for you she would say "Say when!" My aunt would say "Say when!" and of course, we never did. We don't say when because there's something about the possibility, of more. More tequila, more love, more anything. More is better.

Meredith: It's not us. It's them. Them and their stupid boy... Penises. They didn't tell me they have a wife. They gave absolutely no warning that they were going to break up with you.

Cristina: It's not that Burke broke up with me. It's how he broke up with me. Like it was business. Like it was a business trans- Like he was the boss of me?!!

Meredith: He is the boss of you.

Cristina: What's worse is that I care.

Meredith: Ugh I'm going to throw up again. [Gets up and kneels over the toilet] No. Wait. False alarm.

Cristina: The problem is estrogen.

Meredith: No the problem is tequila.

Cristina: You know I used to be all business and then he goes and gets me pregnant.

Meredith: With a stupid boy penis.

Cristina: Now I’m having hormone surges. He ruined me. I'm ruined! He turned me into this... fat, stupid, pregnant girl. Who cares! Estrogen!

Meredith: Penises. Penises Izzie.

Cristina: Estrogen George.

Meredith: [brushing off Derek] I am a sink with an open drain. Anything you say runs straight out. [Storms off]

George: She probably could have picked a better metaphor.

Izzie: Give her a break, she's got a hangover.

Chief:: You called my wife?

Derek: You called mine!

Adele: You don't know what a vacation is, how would you know how to ruin it?

Cristina: [On Judy Dolls]I dissected them, cut off their arms, shaved their heads.

Alex: Sounds like there is a second twisted story behind this...

Cristina: They are sexist, distorted, devil toys creating unrealistic image expectations in the porn driven minds of men.

Bailey: Swallow a bitter pill this morning, Yang? They're dolls!

Addison: We got successful, you and me. We got busy and we got lazy. We didn't even bother to fight anymore, Derek, and Mark was there and I missed you and now I'm sorry. I'm more sorry than you could possibly imagine, but at least I'm talking to you about it.

Derek: [to Addison] I'm a sink with an open drain, Addie.

Meredith: [to George] What are you doing with Olivia? You're letting her think you're emotionally available. You're letting her think she has a chance. And there is nothing worse in the world than thinking you have a chance when you really don't.

Derek: Addison and I are over, Adele.

Addison: It's not like we're divorced.

Derek: Practically divorced.

Adele: [to Addison] You've had counseling?

Derek: We've had adultery, that was enough.

Olivia: I think it's always better to hear bad news first hand. I know I'd like to talk to the doctor who called it, get some answers, so I could get on with my life

Adele: You know, you're perfect for this job Preston - unattached, obsessive, this hospital, this job, it's enough for you, isn't it?

Adele: Being Chief is a lot like being an intern; the work never stops.

Addison: Sometimes people do desperate things to get someone's attention. There are two sides to every story.

Cristina: Love has its limits.

Meredith: But why did you swallow 10 doll heads?

Patient: Because 11 was too many...

Meredith: There's something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when to say when. I think it's a floating line. A barometer of need and desire. It's entirely up to the individual. And depends on what's being poured. Sometimes all we want is a taste. Other times there's no such thing as enough, the glass is bottomless. And all we want, is more.

Make Me Lose Control [2.3]

Meredith: Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in your hand, you feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain. You're ten-feet tall and bulletproof. And then you leave the OR. And all that perfection, all that beautiful control, just falls to crap.

Bailey: Do you have a problem?

Izzie: No.

Bailey: Do you have a mocha latte?

Izzie: No.

Bailey: Then go away.

Meredith: [to Derek] Stop talking to me like you're my boyfriend. Stop talking to me, at all! [Storms out]

Alex: Dude, that was rough.

George: I look like Meredith's dad?

Chief: Just take good care of her. [Walks away]

George: But ... dad? I need help.

Derek: You slept with my best friend on my favorite sheets.

Addison: The flannel sheets? You hate the flannel sheets.

Derek: No, I love the sheets.

Addison: You like the Italian sheets, with the paisley-

Derek: Would you just stop talking about the sheets?

Bailey: Izzie, both Dr. Shepherd's need an intern up on NICU.

Izzie: Wait, both of them, together? And me, by myself, with the two married people who hate each other?

Bailey: Go! Cristina, you're on the thoracotomy.

Cristina: Oh, with Burke? I can't have the hateful married couple instead?

Bailey: Last I checked I was your resident, not your hostess.

Izzie: Why do you do that?

Alex: Do what?

Izzie: Act like an ass whenever any one but me is around. They hate you enough as it is.

Chief: [to Derek] You clear me now or I'll hurt you.

Bailey: Take care of Dr. Grey.

George: Yes. Thank you. [Hugs Bailey] She needs a friend right now. [Bailey kicks George out] Oh.... Her mother.

Chief: I've been sitting home for a week watching Oprah give away things on TV. - Oprah, Derek!

Meredith: It's not okay. You have a wife who's not easy to hate, who's annoyingly kind and painfully smart, and currently saving my friend's life.

Izzie: It's just you think, you think you know someone, know who they are. You share a house and make wishes on eyelashes with them and we don't know each other, none of us. We're just a bunch of interns who work together. There's nothing there.

Addison: Fine Derek, walk away - it's what you do best.

Ellis: What the hell are you doing here! Haven't I told you--how many times have I told you not to bother me when I'm at work!

Addison: You know, the way I see it, we could deal with us in one of three ways. Option one, I could apologize, you could forgive me and come home and we could move on with our lives like adults. Or, option two, I could apologize, you could forgive me, come home, but you can bring it up to use against me whenever we argue.

Derek: Are you trying to be funny?

Addison: Satan has a sense of humor.

Derek: What's the third?

Addison: I don't know what the third option is. [Addison kisses Derek.] I just know I still love you.

Izzie: A lot of the time it feels like you and Cristina are kind of over there, and I'm over here.

Meredith: [to Izzie about Alex] I believe you - that he's different when you get to know him.

Alex: Wait

Izzie: What?

Alex: You have an eyelash. [Places eyelash on palm] Make a wish and blow it away. [Speaking to other nurse] Hey, Nurse Ratchet, there's a dead guy stinking up room 4125. Do something before he rots.

Izzie: [walking away] See, that is exactly what I'm talking about. Why are you so afraid of showing people you are a decent human being?

Cristina: Meredith... leave the sarcasm up to me.. Really... it doesn't suit you.

Derek: Maybe you should've thought of that before you gave chief to Burke and invited Satan to Seattle.

Chief:: Satan?

Addison: Good morning. Richard, like the hat.

Derek: Satan speaks.

Addison: Actually I prefer to be called ruler of all that is evil. [Richard laughs] But I will answer to Satan.

Izzie: How can someone be so offensive and yet so charming all at the same time?

Alex: It's an art form.

Meredith: Right now, just in this moment, I hate you.

Bailey: Yeah. Well, I can take it.

George: Cristina's pregnant?

Izzie: Shut up George.

George: This is a very bad day.

Burke: [to Chief] I'm glad that you're back. I'm just hiding my joy. Deep down inside.

George: Make the lambs stop screaming!

George: [as Thatcher] I hate the way you talk to me. And I really hate the way you talk to Meredith. She deserves better from you.

Ellis: I ... I'm sorry.

George: You are?

Meredith: Have you cried yet?

Cristina: Hello! [They fall on the ground] Do you think we'd feel better if we cried? Like, let it all out?

Meredith: Yeah. Probably.

Cristina: Do you want to cry now?

Meredith: No!

Cristina: OK! Good, let's, let's jog. [They don't get up]

Meredith: [to Derek] Go away! ... It's just that--I'm exhausted. My mother is exhausting. What happened to Cristina is exhausting. And you? Hating you is the most exhausting of all. [Kisses him] And I don't want to do it anymore.

Cristina: [watching Izzie with Alex] What is she doing?

George: She's hanging out with Alex.

Cristina: [pause] Why?

Meredith: [jogging with Cristina] This is supposed to make us feel better.

Cristina: Do you feel better?

Cristina: Slutty mistress.

Meredith: [jogging around Cristina] Pregnant whore.

Cristina: Sleeping with our bosses was a great idea!

Alex: I still think it's nuts having major surgery just so people can't tell how you're feeling.

Meredith: Really? You Do?

Alex: Nah... I guess not. You could talk, you know, I mean, if you need to.

Meredith: I'm fine.

Alex: You said that word so many times today, it doesn't even sound like a word anymore. Just saying you can talk to me. Because, you know, even if I repeat every word you say, no one around here likes me, they just call me a liar and a moron.

Meredith: Izzie likes you. You're blushing.

Alex: Shut up. For what it's worth, I don't know how you're still on your feet. If I found out my mom might have cancer, I'd be under the bar right now.

Meredith: You want the ugly truth?

Alex: What, you have an ugly truth? I never would have picked you to have an ugly truth.

Meredith: I'm more afraid she doesn't have cancer.

Alex: You know, liver cancer's fast. Painful, but it's fast and they give you morphine. They don't give you morphine for Alzheimer's.

Meredith: No, they don't. [Pause] What kind of person wishes their mother had cancer?

Meredith: No one likes to lose control, but as a surgeon there's nothing worse. It's a sign of weakness, of not being up to the task. And still there are times when it just gets away from you. When the world stops spinning and you realize that your shiny little scalpel isn't gonna save you. No matter how hard you fight it, you fall. And it's scary as hell. Except there's an upside to freefalling. It's the chance you give your friends to catch you.

 Deny, Deny, Deny [2.4]

Meredith: The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces.

Addison: Well isn't this cozy. Can I join in or are you not in to threesomes?

Meredith: I have to go.

Derek: Meredith... [To Addison] You really are Satan, you realize that right? If Satan were to take physical form he'd be you, everywhere ... all the time.

Addison: I am not Satan.

Derek: How come you haven't gotten on your broomstick and gone back to New York where you belong?

Addison: Stop being petty.

Derek: Stop being an adulterous bitch.

Addison: You know there was a time when you thought of me as your best friend--

Derek: There was a time that I thought you were the love of my life. Things change.

Addison: Derek, have you ever thought that even if I am Satan and an adulterous bitch that I still might be the love of your life?

Cristina: I will kill her!

Helen: But I am her mother.

Meredith: We don't do well with mothers here. Why don't you leave and come back later.

George: You're officially AWOL you know.

Cristina: I'm working. I'm trying to figure out what's going on with the crazy woman on four.

George: You are the crazy woman on four.

Cristina: I made a break for freedom.

Cristina's Mom: A non-fat one?

Cristina: No, a fat one.

Male Nurse: Ok Yang, how about this order: bed rest, out of bed to chair, bathroom privileges. Nothing about stealing charts at the nurses’ station.

Cristina: Ok, you know what [signals to man pushing a wheelchair] Hey, hey, hey, hey give me that. [Sits down] There, satisfied? I'm out of bed to chair.

Male Nurse: I'm telling your intern on you.

Cristina: Meredith?

Male Nurse: Yeah.

Cristina: Oh, I'm so scared.

Derek: Addison kissed me. Meredith kissed me. My girlfriend and my wife kissed me on the same day.

Bailey: McDreamy, go sit by someone who cares.

Cristina: [crying uncontrollably] Make it stop, Make it stop. Somebody sedate me!

Meredith: Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?

Alex: This is one sick bastard. We should flip him over, and give him a spine.

Derek: Pull back on the reactor Dr. Karev. A little suction.

Alex: Covering for his wife after she shot him?

Derek: He did cheat on her.

Alex: And that's worth a bullet in the head?

Derek: Relationships are built on sacrifice.

Alex: Not that sacrifice.

Derek: I don't know. Sometimes a bullet's worth it.

 Bring the Pain [2.5]

Meredith: Pain, it comes in all forms. The small twinge, a bit of soreness, the random pain that we live with everyday. Then there is the kind of pain you just can't ignore, a level of pain so great that it blocks out everything else, makes the rest of your world fade away until all we can think about is how much we hurt, how we manage our pain is up to us. We anaesthetize, ride it out, embrace it, ignore it, and for some of us the best way to manage pain is to just push through it.

Bailey: Porn as pain management?!

[Meredith, Izzie and Cristina all turn their heads sideways to view the porn better]

Cristina: That does not look comfortable.

Meredith: Trust me, it’s not.

Cristina: Don't tell anyone I did this for you. You tell anyone I did this for you, not only will I kill you, I will sell your body parts for cash!

Cristina: OK. So. There were these women. Nurses. Three nurses. And they were...naughty. They were really, really naughty. They were three naughty nurses. Saucy, even. Saucy and bad and naughty. Three saucy bad naughty nurses. They were taking a shower. Together. Soaping each other up. And then this doctor walks in and he sees these three naughty bad nurses with these great big...

Cristina: Oh yes, I'm so very, very naughty! Bianca said as she dropped her stethoscope. “Me too!”, said Crystal as she snapped on her surgical glove, and then there was Marta... [Bailey walks by, sees what's going on, and glares at Cristina. Cristina shrugs at her.]

Cristina: Where was I?

Henry: Marta.

Cristina: Oh yes, Marta. She was the naughtiest nurse of all because she knew how... [The power comes back on, including the porn video]

Cristina: Oh, thank God.

George: We're not in Kansas anymore.

[Alex, George and the patient are in the elevator when it stops]

Alex: Dude, we’re not moving.

George: Really, you think?

George: [Reading the emergency sign on the elevator out loud after it got stuck] If elevator should stop do not become alarmed. Press the button marked alarm to summon assistance. [To Alex] If they don’t want us to be alarmed why do they call the button 'alarm'?

Meredith: You should take something.

Cristina: Drugs are for babies.

Izzie: I hate Alex.

Cristina: And the non sequitur award goes to...

Izzie: I’m sorry, but I hate Alex.

Meredith: I broke up with Derek.

Cristina: Burke wants to have a relationship.

Izzie: Boys are stupid.

Cristina: Yep.

Alex: So, dude. What’s the deal with Izzie?

George: She shaved her legs for you.

Alex: And?

George: And you didn’t kiss her goodnight.

Patient: She shaved her legs for you and you didn’t follow through?

Alex: Hey I followed through, I always follow through.

George: You didn’t last night.

Alex: Mind your own business.

George: Mind... She had expectations, women have expectations and you didn’t meet them. Hey I live with these women and every time you guys don’t meet their expectations I have to hear about it. So it is my business.

Derek: [to Meredith] Look I was married for 11 years. Addison is my family. That is 11 Thanksgiving’s, 11 birthdays, 11 Christmas’s, and in one day I am supposed to sign a piece of paper and end my family? A person doesn’t do that, not without a little hesitation. I’m entitled to a little uncertainty here. Just a moment to understand the magnitude of what it means to cut somebody out of my life. I am entitled to at least one moment ... of painful doubt and a little understanding from you would be nice.

Bailey: Hey, life is short, times are hard, the road is long, with many a winding turn.

Izzie: [outside the stuck elevator] Poor George, he doesn't have the steadiest hands.

Bailey: Izzie, he can hear you.

Burke: [to George] O'Malley, you just flew solo.

Izzie: Hey George!

George: I have my finger in a heart!

Izzie: Very cool!

Meredith: I don't want to have this conversation again.

Derek: Meredith...

Meredith: You didn't sign the divorce papers. Fine. I get it. End of discussion.

Derek: Meredith.

Meredith: What?!

Derek: Oh... I usually just say “Meredith” and then you yell at me. I haven’t thought past that point. I actually didn’t have anything planned. [Meredith hits him with her purse]

Derek: Listen! Hey stop it! Ow!

Meredith: Seriously!!! Seriously!

Meredith: I lied. I'm not...out...of this relationship. I'm in. I'm so in, it's humiliating, because here I am, begging--

Derek: Mere--

Meredith: Just...shut up. You say Meredith and I yell, remember?

Derek: Yeah.

Meredith: OK, Here it is. Your choice, it's simple. Her or me. And I'm sure she's really great. But Derek...I love you. In a really, really big...pretend to like your taste in music... let you eat the last piece of cheesecake... hold a radio over my head outside your bedroom window... unfortunate way that makes me hate you...love you. So pick me. Choose me. Love me. I'll be at Joe's tonight...so if you do decide...to sign the papers...meet me there.

George: What? You want her doing tequila shots all night? I'll be the one cleaning up the vomit. Besides, I touched a heart today....Porny.

Izzie: I had a good time. Really. Thank you. It's the perfect evening. Best date ever.

Alex: Izzie.

Izzie: You know I especially like the part where you treated me like crap the entire night. That was fun.

Alex: I had a good time.

Izzie: Really?

Alex: Yeah.

[Izzie leans in, hoping...waiting for a goodnight kiss]

Alex: I gotta go.

Izzie: Seriously?! Seriously?!!

Izzie: Seriously?

George: Argh, I'm sleeping!

Izzie: Oh shut up.

George: Shut- argh

George: This is a very small bed.

Meredith: He is a brain surgeon!

Izzie: I look fantastic. I shaved my legs.

Meredith: He’s a brain surgeon how can he be so brainless?

Izzie: Seriously?!

Meredith: Seriously!

George: Shhhh. [pats them both on the shoulder] Go to sleep.

Cristina: So here’s where we are. I work too much. I’m competitive. I’m always right. And I snore.

Burke: What?

Cristina: I’m trying here.

Burke: Oh.

Cristina: Yeah.

Burke: So?

Cristina: Okay. We’re a couple. Whatever. Don’t make a big deal about it.

Meredith: Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed, but sometimes the pain gets you when you least expect it, hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it, and life always makes more.

 Into You like A Train [2.6]

Meredith: In general, people can be categorized in one of two ways -- those who love surprises and those who don't. I don't. I've never met a surgeon that enjoys a surprise, because as surgeons, we like to be in the know. We have to be in the know, because when we aren't, people die and lawsuits happen. Am I rambling? I think I'm rambling. Okay, so my point, actually, and I do have one, has nothing to do with surprises or death or lawsuits, or even surgeons. My point is this: whoever said "What you don't know can’t hurt you", was a complete and total moron. Because for most people I know, not knowing is the worst feeling in the world. [Sees two people with a pole cutting through them.] Okay, fine. Maybe it's the second worst.

Meredith: I actually said "pick me". Right? I did? "Pick me"?

Joe: I think it's romantic.

Meredith: It's not romantic, Joe. It's horrifying. Horror-movie horrifying. Carrie at the prom with the pig's blood, horrifying!

Joe: Ok, fine, it’s horrifying. But Carrie took out an entire senior class as revenge. I gotta say, I like that in a girl.

Meredith: I. said. PICK ME!

Cristina: You tell someone I'll meet you at a bar tonight, how long exactly does that mean you're supposed to wait?

George: You think he’s really not coming?

Izzie: It is getting a little hard to watch!

Cristina: Nah, it was hard to watch half an hour ago, now it's just pathetic.

Meredith: Who's pathetic?

Cristina: What?

Meredith: [drunkenly] You who pretend to be my friends are calling me pathetic. [George shaking his head] behind my back, in front of my face [George pointing at Cristina]. Why don't you just dump the pig’s blood on me now and get it over with.

Meredith: [to herself] He’s really not coming.

Joe: [To Derek] Dude? You're late.

[Derek gives Meredith a nod]

George: Was that a nod?

Meredith: Yes.

George: Do we know what it meant?

Meredith: No.

Meredith: I seem to be drunk. I was off-duty.

Bailey: So was I. Anybody else half in the bottle?

Meredith: You operated on a heart earlier, George. You'd think you could draw a little blood.

George: I rocked that heart.

Meredith: Yeah, you did!

George: I think I'm strung out on the scalpel.

Cristina: I am SO not tired anymore.

George: Me neither! I'm not tired anymore either!

George: Does that mean he picked her?

Cristina: If it does, I just lost fifty bucks.

Bailey: Besides, if I'm not going home, nobody's going home! [To herself] Ten years of marriage and I didn't even get to finish my damn lobster.

Meredith: Ow Ow Ow

Izzie: [Pulls back curtain] What are you doing?

Meredith: I'm inserting my banana bag. Which sounds vaguely dirty but it's not.

Meredith: Before you judge me, I know there was a train accident. People are very badly hurt. And then I'm a vapid narcissist when you mix me with alcohol. In case you were wondering, I know that.

[Izzie smiles]

Meredith: So how's it going with Addison? Bad mood? Good mood? 'Yay my husband picked me mood'?

Izzie: I think it's more of a 'I hate the smell of charred flesh' mood.

Izzie: [referring to Addison] For what it's worth, I take issue with her salmon colored scrubs. I mean what self respecting surgeon wears salmon colored scrubs?

Meredith: This is what I'm saying.

Meredith: So basically whoever you move doesn't stand a chance. So how do you choose? How do you decide who gets to live?

Bailey: Regretting that last shooter about now, aren't you?

Cristina: [to paramedic] Okay, really, I cannot straddle another giant ego right now. I'm already doing the splits.

George: For what it's worth, I think he's crazy if he doesn't pick you.

Cristina: PLEASE tell me you've seen a leg! A cleanly severed right leg!

George: No. [Cristina leaves]

Meredith: How weird is this job?

George: Weird.

Izzie: She wanted to see her friend. What was he supposed to do, tackle her?

George: She's cracking jokes. How do you tell somebody that she's going to be dead in a few minutes when she's sitting up, cracking jokes?

Cristina: I'll go find the right, right leg.

Cristina: You're my boyfriend! I mean, I know I don't have much experience with this kind of thing but, aren't boyfriends supposed to help in situations like this?

Burke: Cristina, when we're on duty I can't be your boyfriend.

Cristina: Ok, so when we're on duty, I can have sex with someone else?

Burke: Dr. Yang, I'm walking away now.

Meredith: Addison yelling at you in front of a patient?

Alex: She didn't exactly yell. [Pause] Fine, she's Satan’s whore.

Meredith: Thank you. So, did you yell back?

Alex: No.

Meredith: Dude, you lost your mojo.

Alex: Excuse you?

Meredith: I was trying to talk boy.

Alex: O'Malley plugs a hole with his finger and everyone walks around like he's some kind of hero. I have one off day...

Meredith: You chickened out.

Alex: I hesitated briefly.

Meredith: Why didn't you kiss Izzie?

Alex: And now I'm leaving.

Cristina: [runs in] It's not in the morgue. I've looked in the ambulances and the ER. How is one bloody hairy leg gonna destroy my career? [Runs off again]

Blood Lab Guy: Dr. Karev?

Meredith: I hope you find your mojo Alex, I find you disturbing without it.

Alex: Me too. [Walks away with the blood lab results]

Meredith: [hits the back of her head on the wall] Ow.

Paramedic: [to Alex] Easy, Killer.

Addison: So, have you made a decision yet, Dr. Stevens?

Izzie: Huh?

Addison: Whether or not you're going to hate me. You're Meredith's friend? I'm the wicked witch who came in and ruined her life and cheated on Doctor...wait, what is it that you guys call him?

Izzie: Uh--McDreamy...

Addison: Right. God, doesn’t that embarrass him?

Izzie: Yeah, I think it does.

Addison: So, when you decide how important it is for you to hate me...let me know.

Derek: She asked me to tell you...She wanted you to know, that if love were enough...that if love were enough, that she'd still be here with you.

Meredith: As surgeons, there are so many things we have to know. We have to know we have what it takes. We have to know how to take care of our patients... and how to take care of each other. Eventually, we even have to figure out how to take care of ourselves. As surgeons we have to be in the know. But as human beings, sometimes it's better to stay in the dark, because in the dark there may be fear, but there's also hope.

 Something to Talk About [2.7]

Meredith: Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need.

Nurse: She didn't even know he was married. I heard, she flipped out.

Addison: You want me to pick up and move my entire practice? I want you to give up your girlfriend.

Addison: I know. You're a flannel-wearing, wood-chopping fisherman. I GET IT.

Bailey: And you three--- brush up on how not to embarrass me in front of the Attendings or I'll see to it that your hearts stop beating. You clear?

George: We have to do something. Meredith has become like an exhibit like...hey... like a zoo animal...like that rare panda that everyone stares at.

Izzie: Please don't say that to her face. I think that panda died alone

George: I'm an idiot

Cristina: Now, you can either walk away guilt-free, or risk your place in the program, which could possibly lead to spending the rest of your life serving fries in bad clothing. So you in?

Meredith: Hell, yeah

Cristina: Okay, found, stole, hijacked, whatever.

Cristina: Give me a break, we shuffle rooms all the time. You know, if we need a bedpan changed, we’ll let you know.

Izzie: So no to your favor. No to you. NO.

Burke: So where are we?

Cristina: At the northeast corner of the hospital?

Izzie: You couldn't even have bothered to kiss me goodnight. You're a coward, and you're just as shallow as you seem. [She walks off]

Nicole: She's really mad at you.

Nicole's Mom: Why would she need to wear a bikini? She doesn't even know how to swim!

Nicole: Hi. I'm Alex's charity case.

Cristina: I like her already.

Cristina: WE. Are a couple.

Nicole: I don't like you.

Alex: Yeah, you do.

Nicole: Jerk.

Alex: Motor mouth.

Nicole: Babysitter.

Alex: Two-wheeler.

Nicole: Now that's just politically incorrect.

Bailey: Pissing off the nurses. STUPID.

Bailey: Turn around and walk away

Derek: From what?

Bailey: From my intern

Derek: No, I wasn’t

Bailey: Yes you were, come on, look ,you can’t do this, you don’t have the right, not anymore.

Derek: I just want to find out if she's okay

Bailey: No, she's not. She's a human traffic accident, and everybody's slowing down to look at the wreckage. She's doing the best she can with what she has left, and I know you can't see this 'cause you're in it, but YOU CAN'T HELP HER NOW! You'll only make it worse. Walk away. Leave her to mend.

Nicole: I'm like the oldest living prospective college freshman not to go to first base

Alex: For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch, you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep, you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss, Nicole. Trust me you don't want to, 'cause when you find that right person, the first kiss...it's everything.

Patient's husband: She's like some, some mythical monster. She's NEVER gonna die!

Meredith: [to Derek] What are you looking at!?

Nicole: It's my fault; I let you do it. But I'm not cheating anymore. I'm not sitting back and giving over control, because I am ready to handle things for myself.

Chief: [to Burke, about him and Cristina] You're not married; you're not hiding. You came to me. You clearly value your relationship. What you two have together, I understand that, Preston, and it does matter.

Meredith: So you guys really do have nothing else to talk about?

Meredith: At the end of the day, there are some things you just can't help but talk about. Some things we just don't want to hear, and some things we say because we can't be silent any longer. Some things are more than what you say, they're what you do. Some things you say because there's no other choice. Some things you keep to yourself. And not too often, but every now and then, some things simply speak for themselves.

 Let It Be [2.8]

Meredith: For extra credit, Mrs. Snyder made us act out all the parts. Sal Scafarillo was Romeo. As fate would have it, I was Juliet… Most of the girls were green with envy. I wasn't. I told Ms. Snyder that Juliet was an idiot. For one thing, she falls for the one guy she knows she can't have… Everyone thinks it's so romantic: Romeo and Juliet, true love...how sad. If Juliet was stupid enough to fall for the enemy, drink a bottle of poison, and go to sleep in a mausoleum, then she deserved everything she got.

Izzie: You kissed me.

Alex': Yes, I did.

Izzie: Should we?... I mean, there's a discussion that we could have... if you wanted to have one?

Alex': Izzie, I kissed you, with tongue, and I plan to do it again and again - get used to it. End of discussion.

Izzie: Ok.

Derek: [to Meredith] You could at least acknowledge my existence.

[Addison enters elevator]

Addison: Hello ... Dr. Grey.

Meredith: [bitterly] Hello.

Burke: So...It's date night.

Cristina: Yeah, it's a night...with a date.

George: There's no one you'd like me to call? I'd be shouting from the rooftops! Come on, man, it's a miracle! You don't even KNOW!

George: You lived. We both did. Carpe diem, man. "Seize the Day!"

Fall Guy: Any chance you can make him leave?

Cristina: I really, really wish I could

Addison: Medicine aside, our friends are going through hell in there, and we can't even act like we like each other long enough to help them.

Meredith: I've always been more of a dog person, myself.

Meredith: Oh, yeah, my ex-boyfriend moved his wife to Seattle. Reason? To torture me.

Cristina: Plus I've already spent an hour picking bird parts out of the guy. I'm over it.

George: Carpe diem.

Meredith: Right, you and my forehead. I'm beginning to look how I feel. Carpe that.

George: This is the luckiest day in the world!

Cristina: Tell that to the bird.

Izzie: Take your chances, get cancer, and fight like hell to survive.

Izzie: You'd look hot in any of them

Cristina: Clearly! But that's not the point.

Meredith: Wow, you look hot. [George whistles]

Cristina: Yeah, Burke and I are going to talk about how hot I am over dinner. This date is such a mistake.

George: it's easy to get nervous on dates. It's especially hard if you're out of practice so you've just got to be mellow --

Cristina: Yeah, I know how to date, George. How about you?

Izzie: I couldn't do it. [Referring to having her ovaries and breasts removed].

Alex: What? Make yourself all hot and sexy for your boyfriend like Yang?

Cristina: Go wrestle something.

Meredith: If it were me, I wouldn't even have the test. I mean, what's the point? We're all gonna die anyway, right? [Everyone just looks at her.] It's The Hello Kitty band aid. It's freaking me out.

Cristina: I can do hot in my sleep! I look hot in scrubs! I'm a hot person.

Cristina': [about Burke] He's seen me naked a thousand times.

George': Bad! Bad images in my head!

Derek: Well, this is fun, again. Love the Hello Kitty, by the way. Very pink. Very cheerful.

[Burke and Cristina, sitting at restaurant table, awkward silence]

Panic-stricken woman: Oh my God! Is there a doctor here?

[Burke and Cristina eye each other]

Burke and Cristina: YES!!

Cristina: He's the cardiothoracic surgeon who is going to operate on him.

Burke: And she's with me.

Daisy: Well, you just tell that bastard that he could have come looking for me like ten years ago.

Bailey: You haven't TOLD her yet? Okay, I didn't hear you say that. You are her doctor. It is your responsibility to give your patients the information necessary to make an informed decision. Now. I'm hungry, I'm tired, and you're in my way.

Bailey: I'm pregnant, you blind moron.

Chief:: You’re what?

Bailey: My heart rate is 110, I’m burning three thousand calories a day, my legs are swollen, I got indigestion and gas. Did you know carrying a boy in your uterus means you burn ten percent more calories than if you had a girl? Guess what I’m carrying. I tried for seven damn years and a month before my fellowship notifications the stick turns blue. Men... from the very beginning they just suck the life right out of you. I’m not leaving. I’m pregnant.

Burke: [during surgery] Dr. Yang, you're handling the saw.

Cristina: You won't let me pick the wine, but this you'll let me do?

Weiss: Yeah, and here's to the bull, and here's to the crap!

Derek: Am I out of my mind, man? I mean, you tell me.

Derek: What the hell am I doing?

Meredith: I think you can't wait for someone to fly underneath you and save your life... I think you have to save yourself.

Savvy: My life. This gives me a shot, a shot at me and Weiss becoming this old wrinkled couple who argue all the time. Wouldn't you want that? A chance to grow old with Derek?

Addison: Yeah. Yeah, I do.

Alex': Here's the thing - I like your rack.

Izzie: God, what is wrong with you? Why do you have to be so - what is wrong with you?

Alex': I like your rack and I'd want them around if I could have them, trust me I would, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if you got rid of them... because really, I'd want you.

[Izzie slaps him]

Alex': Ow! What was that for?

[she kisses him]

Burke: I guess we never really got our date.

Cristina: Are you kidding? That was the best date I've ever been on.

Daisy: We don't like sick people

George: OK-- you do realize you're in a hospital?

Meredith: [to Derek, who is standing behind her] I miss you. [Derek moves closer and sniffs her hair.]

Derek: I can't.

Meredith: Mrs. Snyder explained to me that when fate comes into play, choice sometimes goes out the window.

Meredith: Maybe Romeo and Juliet were fated to be together, but just for a while, and then their time passed. If they could have known that beforehand, maybe it all would have been okay. I told Mrs. Snyder that when I was grown up, I'd take fate into my own hands. I wouldn't let some guy drag me down. Mrs. Snyder said that I'd be lucky if I ever had that kind of passion with someone, and that if I did, we'd be together forever. Even now, I believe that for the most part, love is about choices. It's about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending...most of the time. And that sometimes, despite all your best choises and all your best intentions... fate wins anyway.

 Thanks for the Memories [2.9]

Meredith: Gratitude, appreciation, giving thanks. No matter what words you use, they all mean the same thing. Happy. We're supposed to be happy. Grateful for friends, family. Happy just to be alive. Whether we like it or not.

Bailey: People get stupid. People get violent. People get hurt.

Bailey: Surgeries, Grey! Lots and lots of surgeries!

Meredith: I never thought of that.

Bailey: The stupidity of the human race, Grey. Be thankful for that.

[Bailey and Meredith meet Dr. Kent, the sub attending from Mercy West, on Thanksgiving.]

Bailey: Dr. Kent.

Dr. Kent: Yes.

Bailey: I'm the surgical resident assisting you today. I know you're subbing in from Mercy West, so if there's anything I can do to help you --

Dr. Kent: Look I'm only here for one day and I don't need my ass kissed. All I need is to tell you what to do and you do it. And I don't like mistakes.

Bailey: I don't make mistakes.

Dr. Kent: Whatever, there's only one resident I want in my OR; a guy they call the Nazi. Do you know him?

Bailey: The Nazi?

Dr. Kent: He gets a great word of mouth, stellar rep, balls the size of Texas?

Bailey: That big? Sounds like an impressively talented man, this 'Nazi.'

Dr. Kent: Do you know him or not?

Bailey: Never heard of him but I'll be sure to keep an eye out.

Dr. Kent: For now you can work on smaller cases. A guy just came in to curtain 3. Page me if you get confused.

Bailey: I'll be sure to do that.

Bailey: [to Meredith, as Dr. Kent walks away] Like I said, the stupidity of the human race.

Cristina': [about inviting Burke to Thanksgiving dinner] What was I supposed to do? Blow off my boyfriend for Thanksgiving? [Pause; whispers to Izzie] I tried to. He wouldn't blow. He's like something sticky that won't blow off.

Meredith: [about her PVS patient] But he was looking at me.

Derek: He wasn't looking at you.

Meredith: He was.

Derek: The CT report says he wasn't.

Meredith: Do you want to argue with what I know I saw?

Derek: No, Meredith-- I don't want to argue with you any more.

George: I'm in the woods. With shotguns and liquor and car talk. It's like Deliverance out here!

Cristina: Meredith's a WASP, isn't she? Liquor is like oxygen for WASPs.

George: Which is...why we're out of liquor.

Joe: Hey, this is my boyfriend, Walter

Cristina: Whatever, tell me you brought liquor.

Joe: I brought pie. Pumpkin.

Cristina: You're a bartender!

Joe: Did you bring scalpels?

Meredith: I feel like one of those people who are so freaking miserable that they can't be around normal people. Like I'll infect the happy people. Like I'm some miserable, diseased, dirty ex-mistress.

Alex: [To Meredith, about telling Izzie he failed his Medical Board Exam] If I tell Izzie, she'll be nice about it, all supportive and optimistic--she might as well rip my nads off and turn them into earrings.

Alex: A miserable, diseased, dirty ex-mistress? [Wolf whistle] That's hot. That's really hot. I feel better already.

Holden: Hey they've moved on. I should too.

George's Dad: You treat us like we're stupid. And maybe we are. But we're your family. Give us an inch, Georgey. Every once in a while? Pick a car.

[Chief is looking at the OR board and Bailey finds that he has not gone home yet.]

Bailey: You are a surgical junkie. Go home!

Chief: Adele is already mad. I'm in trouble no matter what ... and there's a wipple happening in OR 2.

Bailey: GO HOME, RIGHT NOW!

Chief: [to Bailey, walking away, as Dr. Kent passes her in the opposite direction] You know this kind of treatment is the reason they call you the NAZI!

[Dr. Kent's eyes open wide and he spins around to look at the Nazi he has been looking for all day and sees Bailey]

Bailey: [smirks] Happy Thanksgiving.

George: Today I committed bird murder and I was forced to touch my dad's ass. I get bonus points for showing up at all.

Cristina: I brought booze.

Addison: Derek, are you done? Hurting me back? I mean because I need to know. Cause if not, I gotta special order a thicker skin or something.

Meredith: Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

 Much Too Much [2.10]

Meredith: When you were a kid, it was Halloween candy. You hid it from your parents and you ate it until you got sick. In college, it was the heavy combo of youth, tequila and well, you know. As a surgeon, you take as much of the good as you can get because it doesn't come around nearly as often as it should. 'Cause good things aren't always what they seem. Too much of anything, even love, is not always a good thing.

Cristina: [to Burke] So this is...where you live?

Meredith: You're going through his stuff, aren't you?

Cristina: There's no stuff to go through. It's a freak show. I mean, you can do surgery in here. Oh, he arranged his books using the Dewey Decimal system! Mer, I'm scared.

Meredith: Get out, get out of the house--now.

Meredith: When I get back, you won't be here, so...goodbye...Steve.

A Note from Burke to Cristina: 'C' -- I had a key made for you. --'B.'

Izzie: Who was it this time? Hairy Back Guy?

[As Meredith's one night stand runs out of the house]

George: Oh, he's new.

Izzie: And I shall name him: Running Guy.

Izzie: I just, JUST need some sex, George. You know, I just, I need sex now, you know what I mean?

George: No matter how hard you beg, [shaking head] I am not doing you [nodding head and mouthing 'Yes I am'].

Chief: You're my star. Whatever you need.

Robert: I need a drink! Are you the stewardess?

Robert: Hey! When does the movie start?

Izzie: [to pregnant woman expecting quintuplets] Guess when you take those fertility pills, you should read the fine print, huh?

Meredith: They always look so sad when I kick them out. Seriously, why do guys not understand that when you pick them up in a bar and take them home for sex, that there are no picket fences or kids in your future?

[Cristina takes out the key]

Meredith: Burke keyed you?

Cristina: I got freaking keyed before coffee.

Meredith: What is wrong with them?

Cristina: They're like these 1950s debutantes, one dance and there's a shotgun to your head.

[Meredith's One-Night-Stand walks up]

Steve: Meredith? You work here?

Meredith: What are you doing here...um...Steve?

Steve: I'm having a little problem.

Cristina: Steve, Steve?

Steve: Actually, I'm having a big problem.

[Moves his jacket to reveal his erect penis. Cristina notices and starts staring at it. Meredith doesn't notice.]

Meredith: What?

Cristina: [Still staring] Steve, hi! Cristina.

Steve: Ever since you...and I [Meredith follows Cristina's gaze and does a double-take]...um...it won't go away.

Meredith: Cristina!

Cristina: What? It's right there, looking at me! There are so many things I could say right now -- Champ!

Izzie: He said it's never happened before.

George: That's what we all say. And I mean they, that's what they all say.

Cristina: It's not my fault you broke the guy's penis.

Bailey: Broke his what? [Cristina and Meredith trying to evade her] Hey ! Don't make me chase you down. I'm growing a person here !

Dory: Don't even pretend that you haven't been judging me since the minute we met.

Bailey: There'll be lots of labs, lots of needles, and painful procedures. Procedures which might make you wish you never had a penis. You sure you don't want to change your story?

Bailey: As of now, your..."friend"...is admitted.

Addison: Dory, this is Dr. Shepherd. He's our head of neurosurgery.

Derek: Hi.

Dory [Patient, pregnant with quints]: Oh, another Dr. Shepherd.

Addison: He's my husband, actually.

Dory: Seriously?

Derek: Mm-hmm.

Dory: Wow. Look at you two. Everybody must hate you.

Addison & Derek: Oh, you have no idea.

[Izzie grins at the last comment]

Dory: No brain damage?

Derek: No brain damage.

Dory: Okay, couldn't you have led with that?

Cristina: What the hell is this?

Burke: It's a key.

Cristina: Why?

Burke: Why is it a key? Are we feeling existential this morning?

Cristina: Well, if the key turns in a lock, and no one asked for the key or even wanted the key, does it make a sound?

Cristina: Oh, nice try with the fancy words. He needs an enema, and the answer is no.

Cristina: You would give Burke an enema?

Meredith: Yes!

Cristina: Uh, huh.

Meredith: Maybe. No. But that's not the point.

Cristina: Ah, yeah, OK, here's how it goes. I do this for you, and you do every enema I'm assigned to for an entire month.

Meredith: Deal!

Cristina: Wow, you really don't want to do this.

Alex: Still not talking to me?

Olivia: You gave me syphilis! And I am talking to you, I just don't have anything to say.

Izzie: Was it me? We seemed to be having a normal time.

Izzie: Okay... so do you feel like doing it now?

George': Maybe it's a, a m-matter of volume?

Meredith: Oh, so now I'm a slut?

George': I think you're taking some risks. I think you'll find yourself in some guy's basement being ordered to put the lotion on the skin or you'll get the hose again.

George': And hey. Not every guy's a nightmare.

Steve: A NEEDLE? My PENIS?

Bailey: Well, the next step is penile infarction or gangrene, so if you want it to fall off...

Bailey: What goes up, Must come down.

Steve: Your boyfriend gave you a key to his place?

Cristina: Why is he talking?

Cristina: Congratulations, you're flaccid.

Patient: Never thought I'd be glad to hear that.

Dory: I don't believe in odds

Burke: It's just a key.

Cristina: Okay. Good, good.

Burke: Or...you could start thinking about moving in with me.

Robert: Illness is a sign of weakness! Once they see it, they never look at you the same way again!

Alex: Well, I'm a hotshot doctor. I don't have any problems.

Robert: You probably don't have any friends, either.

Bailey: Oh my Lord. Ooh, child.

Meredith: Don't tell me!

Bailey: Well, we've tried everything, it must be neural.

Meredith: Neural?

Cristina: She already called for a consult.

Meredith: A consult? You called neuro for a consult?

Bailey: Hey, it's not my fault you broke the boy's penis.

[Derek walks in]

Derek: Hello everybody, what's up?

Derek: So, when did this problem begin?

Steve: Well, I had an erection last night and woke up with one this morning.

Bailey: Uh, Dr. Shepherd, if you don't need me, the other Dr. Shepherd needs a consult on one of the quints...

Derek: Yeah, no we're fine. [Bailey leaves] So when did you last ejaculate?

Steve: I'm not sure. Meredith? [Meredith cringes. Cristina tries not to laugh]

Cristina: Oh, I'm...I'm gonna go with Bailey. [She leaves quickly]

Steve: Meredith, what time did we, uh... [Meredith cringes as Derek catches on] ...you know.

Derek: [amused] Yes, Meredith. What time did you two...

Burke: I know you. You don't want to move but I can't always be the one that takes a step. Any more steps and I'm walking away.

Robert: I don't need any doctors! I am an island! A beautiful island surrounded by water!

Steve: A tumor? So...I should be scared, right? This is the time for scared?

Steve: [to Meredith] Can you call my mom? Her number's in my wallet.

Derek: I met a girl there once myself. A very long time ago.

Alex: Go ahead. Fire me.

Cristina: I used the key.

Burke: That's a step.

Cristina: So you really want to know me?

Burke: There is nothing you can reveal about yourself that I wouldn't want to know.

Cristina: This is where I live. My mother decorated it. I don't do laundry, I buy new underwear. The table? Six months of magazines I know I'll never read but I won't throw out. I don't wash dishes, vacuum, or put the toilet paper on the holder. I hired a maid once ... She ran away crying. The only things in my fridge are water, vodka, and diet soda, and I don't care... But you do. Still think living together is a good idea?

Meredith: I was staring at the ceiling in abject horror.

Alex: I heard you broke his penis. Nice!

Derek: Doesn't look like there's any nerve damage. There shouldn't be any long-term effect. I'd wait a few weeks before I tested it out, though.

Meredith: Funny. You're a funny man.

Derek: I just didn't know you two were dating.

Meredith: You knew it would happen eventually

Derek: Eventually feels a lot different than actually.

Meredith: Yeah, I guess it does.

Derek: It's surprisingly painful.

Meredith: It gets better.

Derek: Does it?

Addison: We're okay, right?

Izzie: It's okay. We're going to take really good care of you. Just keep breathing.

Steve: Maybe when I get out of here, we could...

Meredith: I don't think so. You know, when I saw you at Joe's, I was just looking for a replacement. Looking for something to make me feel better. You deserve better than that.

Meredith: How do you know when how much is too much? Too much too soon. Too much information. Too much fun. Too much love. Too much to ask... And when is it all just too much to bear?

 Owner of a Lonely Heart [2.11]

Meredith: Forty years ago, the Beatles asked the world a simple question: they wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely, the surgical wing of hospitals. As surgeons, we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that, at the end of the day, all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.

George: She just smiled at me!

Izzie: A, this is not a competition. And B? My quint kicks your quints' asses.

Izzie: He's unbelievable. I'm so glad I never slept with him. Which is his loss. Because I'm really good in bed. Mind blowing. Mind-blowingly good in bed.

Cristina: Are you trying to seduce us?

Izzie: And he sleeps with Olivia, instead of me. Olivia?!

George: Hey, I slept with Olivia.

Izzie: Well, then you both have bad taste.

George: You know, you can't say that you weren't warned. Alex has always been Alex.

Meredith: You dodged a bullet, Iz. You're better off without him.

Cristina: Why are you even surprised? You sleep with a snake, you get bit.

Izzie: Thanks, guys. . . for the support.

Cristina: I don't have time for breakfast! I've got to round before anyone else if I want to get the good cases!

Meredith: Oh, I'm sorry. What were you saying?

George: A dog is not a replacement for a human being!

[Cristina kicks Izzie awake.]

Izzie: Dammit, WHAT?!

Cristina: Hell hath no fury like a girl whose non-boyfriend screws a nurse.

Izzie [under her breath]: BITCH!

Cristina: I like you bitter and pissed off. You're almost like a normal person now.

Bailey: Uh, Yang, how 'bout we do this in plain English?

Bailey: Why are you arguing with me?

Bailey: These are preemies, they were supposed to spend another 8 weeks in the womb, just like interns, they're not ready for the real world.

Cristina: Is she crazy?

Paramedic: If you call a murderer crazy.

Constance: [at Cristina] Yeah, BABY, that's what I'm talkin' about! WEE!

Cristina: Are you sure you can't do it?

Bailey: I can. I choose not to.

Constance: [To Cristina] Don’t worry, I only killed 3 people and none of them were doctors.

George: Bright lights... thunderstorms... nervous handlers.

Olivia: I'm sorry, I still get a little squeamish around leeches.

George: Huh. That's not what I've heard.

Olivia: I had no idea that you and Alex were a couple. It's just... I was having a bad day. And it was good... to have someone. And to talk to. I mean.. Not. Good to. Alex? Really.. Is.. Good. I mean. He's good in the way he's good person good. Not that kind of good. You know. Good in bed good. Which. He is. As I'm sure you know. But. O...Kay. Well. Bye.

Meredith: So, you're giving up your trailer.

Derek: I'm not giving up the trailer. Is Addison telling people that I'm giving up the trailer?

Meredith: It's just funny, I just never would have pegged you for that guy.

Derek: What guy?

Meredith: You know, the marble bath, private pool, gated community guy.

Derek: Don't peg me. I'm not peggable.

Meredith: You're pegged. Deal with it.

Bailey: [to one of the quints] How you doing', you? You know I'm having' a baby too, yes I am! A little boy! Maybe you could meet him someday! How's that sound, does that sound good? [Cristina walks in; stares] Pregnancy has not made me soft. I haven’t gone soft. I don't do soft.

Cristina: Of course not, just talking to a patient.

Bailey: You try spending a month locked in a room with no windows, no one to talk to twenty-three hours a day. See how deranged she is then.

Bailey: I didn't say she wasn't. I said, try having no one to make your snarky comments to for a solid month. My guess is, you'd swallow the entire razor.

George: Crazy nature man! Wants to take a leech home as a pet.

George: And why Alex? And why AGAIN?

Olivia: People get lonely, George.

Meredith: I'm talking to you. In short, monosyllabic sentences, with disdain and contempt.

Izzie: You tell me to cut my losses, that I'm better off without him, and as soon as I turn my back...

Izzie: Why not, you've slept with everyone else.

Constance: Four razor blades and that's all you can give me? Come on, sugarplum, I thought we were having fun.

Cristina: Okay. Why'd you kill three people?

Constance: Start with a little small talk, why don't you?

Constance: He said he would leave me if I didn't help him. Things got out of control. He was gonna leave me. He was all I had.

Cristina: Clearly being alone has its benefits.

Karl: You know what time it is? Time for you two kids to kiss and make up, that's what time it is!

Olivia: He broke up with me for this girl who doesn't even know he's alive. Listen to me George. You, Meredith Grey, never going to happen.

George: She does so know I'm alive.

George: Why, why, why would you even think it's Meredith?

George: She gave me syphilis.

Chief: Smart, hard working, gets a little too involved with her patients. A lot like you

Chief: You're not here to make friends, Addison. You're here to make better surgeons. Being a teacher can be a lonely business.

Izzie: [about Alex] I'm telling you, Meredith was all over him.

Cristina: Seriously, she was all over him? What, like mounting him, with all the babies watching? Seriously?

Izzie: Well, she would have been if I hadn't interrupted.

George: She was talking to him.

Izzie: You don't talk to bastards who cheat on their girlfriends, George. That's the rule.

George: You weren't officially his girlfriend.

Izzie: That's not the point.

George: It is kind of the point. You don't see me getting all emotional over people I'm not dating.

Izzie: REALLY?! YOU WANT TO GO THERE?!

[Ominous looks all around.]

George: No.

Izzie: I'M HAVING A MOMENT HERE. DON'T MESS WITH ME.

Cristina: You're not going to have a nervous breakdown and kill yourself, are you?

Izzie: No.

Cristina: So, there's no chance you'll kill us?

[Izzie storms out.]

George: OK, that was wrong on so many levels.

Derek: You screwed up. Mr. Martin's fried. You fried his brain. He wakes up, you put him in a wheelchair. He dies, you killed him. Deal with it.

Izzie: When Derek broke up with you, I never said once that you were better off without him. It's not supportive, it's condescending. I was there for you, all I ever am is there for you guys, and the one time I need you? Just go away, Meredith.

Cristina: My God, she swallowed a light bulb

George: By the way, uh ... Sorry you had to see that little scene earlier.

Karl (Patient): Oh, you mean talking with the girl who isn't your girlfriend about the girl who you'd like to be your girlfriend?

Karl (Patient): But sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, they just can't love you back in the same way. Believe me, son. Living with a woman who can't love you back ... way lonelier than being alone.

Meredith: You're still you?

Derek: I'm still me.

Bailey: Oh, and Grey. Way to go.

Meredith: [to quint - Charlotte] Did you hear that? Way to go.

Derek: The first person I killed, I was a second-year resident. James Hanson.

Meredith: Four hundred years ago, another well-known English guy had an opinion on being alone. John Donne. He thought we were never alone. Of course it was fancier when he said it. No man is an island entire unto himself. Boil down that island talk and he just meant that all anyone needs is someone to step in and let us know we're not alone. And who's to say that someone can't have four legs. Someone to play with, or run around with, or just hang out.

 Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer [2.12]

Meredith: It's an urban myth that suicide rates spike at the holidays. Turns out they actually go down. Experts think it's because people are less inclined to off themselves when surrounded by family. Ironically, that same family togetherness is thought to be the reason that depression rates actually do spike at the holidays. Yeah, okay. Izzie doesn't count.

[After Izzie decorated the living room]

George: It looks like Santa threw up in here.

Meredith: Just-- go with it, we're being supportive.

Izzie: Oh, hey! What do you think? Did I go too overboard? I know, I know sometimes I can go a little overboard.

George: [overlapping with Meredith] No, we love it!

Meredith: [overlapping with George] It's great

Izzie: Oh, yay! I LOVE CHRISTMAS!

Meredith: We know.

Cristina: I'm Jewish

Burke: Seriously?

George: Look at her belly! She's almost as wide as she is tall!

Meredith: Are her ankles swollen? Is that why she's waddling?

Izzie: What's gonna happen to use when she goes on leave?

Cristina: Leave? She's going on leave?

Meredith: What do you think happens when people push babies out of their vaginas?

George: Do you think we're gonna get a new resident?

Alex: Nah, They'll probably just let us all walk around unattended, see how much damage we can do.

Izzie: Yeah, well, you would know.

Derek: Hey.

Meredith: Hey! You okay? You seem ...

Derek: Yeah. You know ... holidays.

Meredith: Oh. Yeah. I do know.

Nadia's husband: Are you saying my wife's not important? Is that what he's saying?

Burke: Oh. Well, if there are any more traditions you want me to be aware of...

Cristina: Seriously, Burke, I haven't observed religious holidays since I was old enough to know better.

Justin's Mom: You hear that, baby? Santa Claus is bringing you a new heart for Christmas.

Justin: Well tell that fat ass I don't want it!

Chief: Anxiety attacks, aneurysms, and ulcers.

Bailey: Must be December

Nurse: Chief, Adele just called.

Chief: Tell her I'm ---

Nurse: She knows you're not in surgery and she said to tell you, quote: We are going to our niece's school pageant this morning. You have known about it for months. And after what you pulled on Thanksgiving...and than she started using a great many words that I don't feel comfortable repeating.

Chief: I have 7 surgeons on vacation.

Nurse: And there was something about divorce.

[Chief walks away muttering

Chief: Watching my niece dress up as a wise man..

Addison: It's soft, comfortable, and says "don't hate me for hurting your son, except in fabric".

Justin: My mother's a liar. You heard her. She said the heart came from Santa Claus. She shouldn't get to decide anything.

Derek: The fall has caused a subdural hematoma

Tim's daughter: I don't even know what that means!

Derek: It means that your dad...his brain is bleeding.

Tim's daughter: GREAT.

Burke: I believe there's a mind-body-spirit connection. And if Justin really doesn't want this heart, his body will reject it.

Cristina: Okay, let me get this straight. You don't just celebrate Christmas...you actually believe in Santa Claus?

Cristina: But we're not done here.

Burke: YOU are.

Meredith: Enough with the ego, you big baby! I gave up a surgery for this! Now. Like I said, it hurts here, and here, and back here. Oh, and this morning? I noticed my poop was a funny grayish color.

George: Paging Dr. Karev-ian [laughter]

Bailey: What did you just say?

George: Ah-it, it's a joke, Kevorkian, Karev-ian...Alex Karev?

Bailey: I get the joke. I just don't think it's funny. You see this O'Malley? I make one mistake with this scalpel and this man's dead. My husband, he makes mistakes at his job all the time. As far as I know he's never killed anyone but I have. And YOU WILL. And Alex did. He made a math mistake and a man died for it. Run that past your accountant - see how he'd feel if every mistake he made, someone ended up dead. You don't have to like Alex, you don't have to care about him, but you damn well have to be on his side.

Derek: Really, Dr. Stevens. Christmakkah?

Derek: Do you know what time of year neurosurgeons are the busiest, Dr. Stevens?

Izzie: There's a time of year?

Derek: There's no hard or fast rule, but brain injuries tend to pile up around the holidays. Like our friend here. Folks fall off their roofs while they string up lights, or when they go skating for the first time in a decade, break their heads open. And every year people drive through blizzards to get to parties where they kiss germ-infected strangers under poisonous mistletoe. And then they get so drunk that they smash their heads through their windshield on their way home. Like I said, there's no hard or fast rule.

Alex: Glad to know you can keep a secret, Grey.

Cristina: I'm a 55 year old man. I'm nauseous and I can't stop throwing up.

Alex: Forget it alright. I didn't ask for anybody's help.

Cristina: Look evil spawn, you can nurse your pride, key word being nurse. Or you can pass your test and be a doctor. Up to you.

Alex: [pauses] Any abdominal pain.

Cristina: Yes, from my giant fat belly all the way to my back. Oh and I'm drunk. Hiccup. Hiccup.

[Alex is practicing giving Cristina a breast exam, only it looks like he's groping her]

Cristina: OK, the way you're grabbing me right now, that's assault. [She takes his hand and demonstrates how to give a breast exam] This is an exam. Pat, pat, pat. [George walks in and sees]

George: What? What the hell? Does Izzie know? Does Burke know about this?

Cristina: Unbunch your panties, George, we're helping Alex study. [To Alex] Do it.

George: I can't hear you when his hand is on your boob.

Cristina: Take your hand off my boob, Alex.

Cristina: He's all yours, Georgey! Do your worst!

George: You're not giving me a rectal. Do not ask me to cough.

Burke: You disrespected me. You mocked me in my OR. That can't happen.

Cristina: I'm an intern, you're not. I'm a slob, and you're not. I say I want to keep our relationship private, and you go and tell the chief of surgery...and you ask me to move in with you, and now you're religious?

Tim's son: You stupid Shepherd! You broke my dad's brain!

Izzie: I mean, he trusted you to be his...shepherd!

Derek: Dr. Stevens, you should be a little embarrassed.

Izzie: I am.

Derek: Good.

Bailey: When you operate, the rest of the world goes away. Hunger, thirst, pain. You don't feel it in the OR, but it's not that way when you're sharing your body with another person.

Bailey: Nausea. Comes with the hunger, Grey. GO!

George: My throat! It's like, wicked so-ah, yo. Plus I got, like, all dese sick breakouts, right?

Izzie: You failed your...YOU'RE HELPING HIM?

George: I was actually doing the whole fever and glands thing. The acne thing was just part of the whole teenager thing.

Izzie: He CHEATED on me!

Meredith: Busted?

George: Yeah, I'm busted.

Meredith: His exam is tomorrow.

Izzie: You're in on this too? He cheated on me! GOD!

Cristina: I told you she'd find out.

Izzie: Oh, of COURSE you're in on it.

George: She let him touch her boobs!

Izzie: He CHEATED on me, with George's skanky syph nurse!

George: That is just plain rude!

Meredith: We KNOW he cheated on you, that's why we let you turn the living room into Santa's freaking village.

Izzie: What?

Meredith: We're not big on holidays, you know that, but we're trying to be supportive, because you're having a hard time. But right now, Alex, he's having a harder time.

Izzie: Why does everybody care what kind of time Alex is having.

Meredith: Because he's Dirty Uncle Sal! [insert awkward pause, strange looks, springy sound effects, and little confused sputters from Cristina and George with a slight glare from Izzie here] He's Dirty Uncle Sal! He's the one who embarrasses everyone at family reunions and who can't be left alone with the teenage girls but you invite him to the picnic anyway. [Pause, looks, sound effect, sputters, and glares continue] I have a mother who doesn't recognize me. As far as family goes, this hospital, you guys, are it. So I know you're pissed at Alex but maybe you could try to help him anyway--sort of like in the spirit of this holiday you keep shoving down everybody's throats!

Cristina: You.

George: What?

Cristina: [as she's walking away] Boobs!

Addison: Nice talking to you!

Tim: Great. That's just great. I'm so glad we came to this hospital so I could be treated by a bunch of QUACKS who don't know their ASSES from the inside of my SKULL!

Tim's wife: I just need your word that you'll treat this change in my husband's personality as seriously as you would a fatal cancer, because that's the way this feels to me and my kids. We were happy. We were a happy family!

Justin: My mom told me the heart came from Santa. I thought elves made it in their factory, or whatever. But that's not true, is it?

Justin: Some other kid had to die so I could live. That's what you prayed for all the time, isn't it, Mom? That's what she prays for, Father. How does God feel about that?

Burke: [to Cristina] You know what you're feeling now? That's why I have to believe there's something bigger than me. Because if I didn't, that powerlessness would eat me alive.

Bailey: Do not kick me!

George: Excuse me?

Bailey: Are you kicking me under the table, O'Malley?

George: No!

Bailey: Than clearly I wasn't talking to you! [Sighs] [to her stomach] You cannot kick me while I'm doing my job. [Deep breath] Thank you.

Izzie: Wake up. God, no wonder you failed your boards. What, do you expect to learn this stuff by osmosis?

Alex: What are you doing here?

Izzie: I'm a farmer, okay, I've been drooling, puking, and crapping my pants.

Alex: You came here to help me study?

Izzie: Well I'm not ACTUALLY crapping my pants, now am I?

Alex: Why would you want to help me after what I did?

Izzie: BECAUSE, IT'S WHAT JESUS WOULD FREAKIN' DO!

Cristina: I believe in medicine. And it's a medical miracle you're alive. And medicine is a lot cooler than Santa.

Cristina: So I'm just saying...I think you should decide to live. Live so you can become a doctor, and you can find a way to do heart transplants without someone having to die. Or, live so you can grow up and have kids and...Raise them not to believe in Santa. That would piss your mom off. Just decide to live. Because in your case, dying really isn't the best revenge.

Bailey: Here's your second chance.

George: Really?

Bailey: Just don't screw it up.

George: Yeah, you could sue us. Or, you could consider the possibility of just shutting the hell up.

Nadia's family: What?!

George: I am her doctor; she is my patient, and this is a HOSPITAL. The kind of place where people can generally use a little peace and quiet, so no, right now you can't see her. And I'm not saying this because you just threatened to sue Dr. Bailey, who's spent the last several hours saving your daughter's life, saving your wife's life, I am saying this because she is my patient, and she is in the recovery room, trying to recover, and visiting hours are OVER! So good night. And Merry Christmas.

Bailey: Interns. So emotional. Apologies.

Alex: Is the nausea constant or intermittent?

Izzie: Constant.

Alex: When did it first start?

Izzie: After I worked in the fields all day.

Alex: Do you have any allergies you're aware of?

Izzie: No. [Starts crying]

Alex: Izzie, I never wanted to hurt you.

Izzie: You didn't hurt me. I don't even know you. I'm a farmer.

Alex: You're, you're still the patient?

Izzie: What does it look like?

Alex: It's organo phosphates. Pesticide poisoning. Crying is a symptom, that's it right?

Derek: Hey.

Meredith: Hey.

Derek: You okay?

Meredith: Yeah, yeah. You know, holidays.

Derek: Yeah. I do know.

Addison: It's Christmas, Derek. We love Christmas. Or at least we used to.

Derek: Yeah. Christmas makes you want to be with people you love. I'm not saying this to hurt you. Or because I want to leave you, because I don't. Meredith wasn't a fling. She wasn't revenge. I fell in love with her. Deciding to stay with doesn't change that.

Burke: I wonder what got through to him.

Cristina: Okay, seriously, if you are that lonely, there are excellent vibrators. I can give you a catalogue.

Meredith: There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what the fates hand you. And like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope. Then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. They feed you, and clothe you, and take care of you until you're ready to go out into the world and find your tribe.

 Begin the Begin [2.13]

Meredith: Fresh starts thanks to the calendar they happen every year --just set your watch to January, our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year. Bringing on the great tradition of new years resolutions, put your past behind you and start over. It’s hard to resist the chance of a new beginning, a chance to put the problems of last year to bed.

George: Izzie!!! INCOMING!

Izzie: So I'm thinking of coloring my hair. Maybe red

George: [breathlessly] Yeah--red's good. Thinking about cutting mine.

Izzie: Oh yeah? It'd look good shorter.

[both look around the door to see Meredith petting the dog]

Meredith: Such a good dog! Who's Mommy's good boy? [Turns and looks at Izzie and George] C'mon, what are you doing, we're gonna be late.

George: Uh-- We need to talk about the dog.

Izzie: That's not a dog, it's a hyena that escaped from the zoo, dressed in dog clothing.

George: Whatever. I don't chew up his clothes. I don't urinate on his bed. I don't try to mount him from behind.

Meredith: People, he's our dog. We love our dog. He loves us.

Izzie: Mount you from behind?

George: He tries to.

[Dog barks]

George: [whispering] he tries to...

Addison: [Addison is annoyed that Derek has just caught a trout and has brought it inside] Why did you bring a trout into the trailer?

Addison: I hate this freaking trailer!

Derek: No trout for you, then?

Burke: Then answer me this, what were you planning to do about the baby?

Izzie: We're all pulling for you.

George: We are?

Izzie: We are.

Burke: You're fine there.

Denny: Capricorn, single, loves to travel and cook.

Denny: Guess I'll be seeing you around, Dr. Stevens.

Bailey: What are you saying? I look tired O'Malley?

George: No, not tired, no, you look fresh, spry, you glow. What? [Looks at watch] Stop now.

Bailey: O'Malley, go down and take on Addison Shephard's patient.

George: Addison. [He leaves]

Izzie: You do glow.

Alex: Like the moon.

Bailey: And you can spend the day in the pit Karev.

George: Your lab work...showed...have you been taking birth control pills?

Bex: If you tell my mom and dad they'll-

George: I won't! I won't--I just need to know...why? Do you have a boyfriend?

Bex: Like anyone would want to have sex with me--

George: Well...then...why?

Bex: I'm as flat as a board. I took like five of those pills a day and nothing's different. Boobs, dude.

George: You...were trying to make your breasts grow.

Bex: I wanted to be normal for once in my life.

Meredith: Hi.

Derek:: Hi. You're leaving?

Meredith: 80 hour limit. You?

Derek:: Surgery was postponed.

Derek: [keeps looking at her and smiles]

Meredith: I have a dog.

Derek:: You have a dog.

Meredith: My point is, I have a dog.

Derek:: You have a dog. Oh, you know what? I love dogs.

Derek: [keeps looking at her and keeps smiling]

Meredith: I've moved on, so don't give me that look.

Derek:: What look?

Meredith: That look. Our look. I'm over you.

Derek:: I'm over you too.

Meredith: You are?

Derek:: No!

Meredith: Oh. Well, I am...over you.

Derek:: I'm over you too.

Meredith: You just said... [Looks at him] Shut up.

Derek: There is a land called Passive Agressiva, and you are their queen.

Derek: Except when you're shrieking about trout.

Addison: Loved. You said you loved her, past-tense. So, then I have been shrieking about the trailer.

George: You just have to get through high school. Cause high school sucks for anyone who's the least bit different. But then there's college and then out in the real world, you'll find where you fit in.

Denny: Can I ask you something personal?

Izzie: If I say no?

Denny: I'll hold my breath, which will stop my heart, killing me. You're right here, you'll be charged with murder. Lifetime in prison loved by a big old girl named Hildy.

Izzie: So my choices are homicide charges or inappropriate personal questions from a patient.

Denny: I know, kind of sucks.

Izzie: You know what, hold your breath. I'll take my chances with Hildy. I can do girl-on-girl.

Denny: Oh, you're bringing up girl-on-girl? How can I blackmail you if you bring up girl-on-girl?

Izzie: What do you want to know?

Denny: That guy Alex. You with him?

Izzie: No, not anymore and never ever again.

Denny: Good, that means I won't have to fight him for you.

Izzie: What makes you think I want you to fight him for me?

Denny: You're in love with me. I'm well-off, but not into money; I'm smart, but not a know-it-all; I'm funny, I'm really nice, I love animals-- and I'm hot. I'm a catch, if you can wrap your head around the enlarged failing heart and dependency to IV meds.

Izzie: You're right. I am so in love with you. It's a shame, really, since I'm with Hildy and all.

Bailey: Yang, why are you staring at my fat pregnant belly?

Mauer: I poured my heart and soul into that freaking book and now it's stuck up my ass! Put that on my tombstone Audrey! On my tombstone!

George: How do you want her to find out?

Meredith: Free time sucks.

George: When would have been a good time to hear about your boyfriend's wife?

Meredith: Are you mad at me or something?

George: So she can move forward one way or the other. It's a fresh start, right?

George: What, am I just supposed to lie to her?

Meredith: What are you doing here?

Derek: There is a clinical trial to slow the progression of early onset Alzheimer's.

Meredith: OK, me, you can screw with. My mother? No. Not acceptable.

Derek: There have been some really promising results from similar studies in Europe. Your mother is a prime candidate.

Meredith: My mother is very sick and has very few good days. And I don't want her to be poked and prodded for some experimental program.

Derek: I'm just trying to help.

Meredith: Well, see this? What you’re doing, being dreamy? It doesn't help. It hurts me. It messes with my head. You have a wife to go home to and I'm guessing she has no idea where you are right now.

Derek: No, she doesn't.

Meredith: That's what I thought.

Chief: With you, you're just trying to help out a friend. Right, right. I'll tell her. I have no history with Ellis Grey, none at all. What?

Mauer: Perhaps I shall play the cello.

Bailey: I thought about it. Not keeping it.

Bailey: I took pause.

Cristina: You paused?

Bailey: I paused.

Bailey: You just have to know. And when you don't know? Then no one can fault you for it. You do what you can, when you can, while you can. When you can't, you can't.

Denny: You're stalking me. You're a stalker.

Izzie: Well, can you blame me?

Izzie: Fine. There's no time.

Denny: That’s just spiteful.

Derek: I'm cooking the trout outside.

Addison: Thank you.

Addison: There is a land called Passive Agressiva, and I am their queen.

Cristina: I wasn't gonna have it. The baby. And you don't get to be mad about that. We barely knew each other, and I was an intern, and there was no way that we could have...

Burke: I just wanted to know. I want to know things.

Meredith: You don't eat laundry! Bad dog! Bad!

Meredith: Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not on the calendar, it’s not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event --big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it's also important to remember amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.

 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies [2.14]

Meredith: As doctors, we're trained to be skeptical, because our patients lie to us all the time. The rule is, every patient is a liar until proven honest. Lying is bad. Or so we are told constantly from birth—honesty is the best policy, the truth shall set you free, I chopped down the cherry tree, whatever. The fact is, lying is a necessity. We lie to ourselves because the truth, the truth freaking hurts.

Meredith: Why aren't you busy prepping for rounds and stealing all the good cases

Cristina: Why aren't you busy prepping for rounds and stealing all the good cases

Meredith: No reason.

Cristina: No reason. [Pauses] Burke thinks I moved in with him.

Meredith: McDreamy and I have a case. He thinks you moved in with him?

Cristina: You're calling him McDreamy again?

Cristina: What are you doing?

Meredith: What are YOU doing?

Cristina: Stop repeating what I say!

George: [shouting through glass at Meredith] CUJO HAS TO GO!

George: I’m putting my foot down, either the dog moves out or I do. Foot, down, now. Me or the dog, which is it?… You hesitated! She hesitated!

Izzie: You hesitated?!?

Meredith: I didn’t hesitate, I was thinking.

George: You have to think about it? Fine, I’m moving out right now… [Runs into Dr. Bailey] Later, I’m moving out later. Right now, I have rounds.

Dr. Bailey: Tell me that is not a dog.

Alex and Cristina: It's not a dog.

Rick Friart: Oh dude, I’d better not be out of the band.

George: Why is she still here?

Nurse: Because I am not a bouncer, and this is not a nightclub.

Sophie: [to George] Ooh, an Irishman! I love the Irish. They have a sparkle, you can see it in the eye, and the swagger. O’Malley, show me the swagger. [George walks] The eyes are right, but you’ll have to work on the swagger.

Izzie: Eating is a sport?

Kamaji: The young doctor wants you to know he's a wrestler. I think he's flirting with you.

Yumi Miyazaki: Tell him I eat little boys like him for breakfast

Kamaji: Can't you just give her another dose of that medicine? It seemed to be working.

Bailey: Did the hiccups come back?

Kamaji: Yes

Bailey: THEN IT DIDN'T WORK.

Bailey: I'm a surgeon. There ain't no damn slowing down

Meredith: Everybody's a liar.

Burke: Dr. Grey, is that a dog?

Meredith: No.

Derek: Yes compassion, It's an emotion. Have you ever heard of it?

Cristina: Have YOU? She's barely back on her feet and you've got her calling you McDreamy again. You know, I was just telling the patient the truth. You might want to try it sometime.

Chief: Why do you think she's been here this long? In a private room.

Sophie: [to George] You drive, I’ll ride shotgun.

Izzie: You’re not moving out, George.

George: Oh yes I am. I gave an ultimatum, threw down the gauntlet, drew my line in the sand.

Izzie: Well ungive, unthrow, undraw.

George: A man does not give an ultimatum and then back down. Meredith had a choice and she chose the dog.

Sophie: A girl chose a dog over you?

George: Yes!

Izzie: No!

Cristina: Destructive, aggressive hell-dog available!

George: Don't talk to me! You'll only make me mad. I'm afraid you'll mess up my game, and I'm in the zone.

Cristina: You want to be me, but you can't be me. You want to be me, but you . . . [looks sick]

Izzie: Crap. She's gonna blow.

Chief: You used to be one of them. Don't you speak nurse?

Sophie: [to George] That must be one hell of a dog.

George: Excuse me?

Sophie: Those eyes, and those nice, firm hands. Girl chooses a dog over you, it must be one hell of a dog.

Cristina: We're in an elevator. That's your specialty, right? McDreamy moments in elevators?

Derek: Dr. Yang…

Cristina: You know what? For just a moment, I’m not Dr. Yang and you’re not Dr. Shepherd. You’re the guy who screwed up my friend. The guy who drove her to get a dog she can't keep, the dog she only got because her boyfriend lied to her about his wife.

Derek: I never lied to her.

Cristina: You know, I know a liar when I see one because I am a liar. You want me to lie to the patient? Fine, I'll lie.

Sophie: Such a handsome young man. Those chocolaty eyes.

Happy Lady: [to Meredith] You know, you are a gorgeous young woman. Look at you! You know, you should smile more.

Burke: You forged my signature?

Meredith: That’s really bad, right?

Burke: Yeah, that’s really bad. … Next time you forge my signature, let me know. Save me a trip.

Meredith: That’s it? You're not gonna yell and say Dammit, Grey and storm off?

Burke: I will if you want me to.

Meredith: No.

Meredith: An increased level of serotonin in the blood.

Burke: Which creates a false sense of euphoria.

Tom Cline: So Naomi’s not actually this happy? She just has a tumor?

Burke: Exactly.

Tom Cline: Thank god!

Naomi Cline: You people with your tumors. I tell you, I’m infected with love!

Meredith: I’m sorry, your body is lying to your mind.

Naomi Cline: Let the lie continue! Right, baby?

Tom Cline: How soon can you cure her?

Burke: I know it was probably you who convinced Cristina. She's very strong, but she listens to you. If you told her to move in...Anyway. Thank you.

Meredith: No problem.

Nurse: Have you met your mother?

Sophie: Nursing homes are for old people. I know I’m elderly. I do know that. But if I have to go to that place, I’m afraid I’ll become old.

George: I don’t think that’s possible.

George: You know I would keep you here if I could.

Sophie: No, darling, you can't waste any more time with me. You have to go balls out with the dog.

George: Excuse me?

Sophie: So she chose an animal over you. Women are fools, that's old news. But life's too short for you to give in, Irish. So fight, you fight for what's yours.

Sophie: [to George] Now that, my friend, is a swagger.

Alex: Tell her. Tell her how her career is over because of you

Izzie: [to Alex] Congratulations, you're not an idiot. Except when you are being an idiot.

Derek: I was being nice to her.

Cristina: Ok.

Derek: I can be nice to her without being…

Cristina: McDreamy, I know.

Derek: I really can.

Cristina: Ok.

Derek: Ok then.

Bailey: I may be forty-seven months pregnant. I may be on bed rest. I may not be able to see my own feet. But I AM Dr. Bailey. I hear every thing. I know every thing. I’m watching each and every one of you. And I will return.

Burke: Strike?

Derek: Strike.

Chief: You are all a bunch of arrogant surgeons.

Cristina: Fine. If you want me to tell Burke I didn't move in, I'll tell him.

Meredith: No, don’t.

Cristina: What?

Meredith: Don’t tell him. At least not right now, or tonight. I just mean wait, it can wait. I lied about Derek. We're not just friends. I mean, I'm not. He's still McDreamy.

George [to Meredith]: You don't get to choose. I know you've been going through a bad time. I know you miss Shepard. And I know that your life has, admittedly, been pretty unpleasant these days. You get points for breathing in and out. You get to be a little selfish. But you don't get to choose a dog over me... I'm George. I sleep down the hall from you. I buy your tampons. I have held your hand, every time you asked. I've earned the right to be seen. To be respected. To not have you think of me, as less than a dog that you got at the pound. So, I'm not moving out. Whether you like it or not, I'm staying.

Derek: It's just a dog, it doesn’t mean anything. It’ll be fine.

Meredith: No matter how hard we try to ignore or deny it, eventually the lies fall away, whether we like it or not. But here's the truth about the truth: It hurts. So we lie.

 Break On Through [2.15]

Meredith: In general, lines are there for a reason : for security, for clarity. If you choose to cross the line, you pretty much do so at your own risk. So why is it, that the bigger the line, the greater the temptation to cross it?

George: My dad's a truck driver, my mom's a teacher. If the evening news shows me crossing a picket line, they'll outlive me just to pee on my grave.

Olivia: Change your own bedpans, Stevens!

Izzie: Yeah, well enjoy your syphilis, Olivia.

Chief's Assistant: You know why I stopped being a nurse? Doctors. Doctors who don't know how to pitch in.

Chief: We need an additional 40 nurses to relieve the whole retirement that's striking about. That's 2 million dollars a year we don't have.

Derek: Have you checked under the couch? I always find spare change under the cushions.

Sydney: Here you are! You guys look like a great group! Which is awesome, because my horoscope said it was going to be a very challenging day! But no! This is GREAT, we're going to have so much FUN!

Cristina: Ow. Ow. Ow.

Sydney: Am I hurting you?

Cristina: No you're touching me

Cristina: George is cowering behind the picket line like a little girl.

Sydney: Standing up for what he believes in, that's my kind of little girl! Am I right?

Sydney: So it looks like it's just you and me, Izzie McGee!

Izzie: It's Stevens, Izzie Stevens.

Sydney: Oh no I knew. I was just rhyming.

[awkward pause]

Izzie: Oh right. Rhyming. That's neat.

Cristina: Can you dismount...please?

George: I'm a union guy. Give me that sign.

Addison: You should come visit! The dog, I mean.

Meredith: Uh huh. Bye!

Sydney: Anyone want to probe the wound?

Cristina and Alex: I do.

Alex: I'd really love to try your method of healing with love.

Sydney: I like the way you think Alex. You do the honors.

Grace's friend: You little schnook, you were supposed to let her die!

George: Sir, all due respect, no offense intended, but I won't cross the picket line.

George: All due respect, no offense.

George: Forty to fifty hours of mandatory overtime is extremely… Yes sir I'm very sorry no offense intended sir!

Cristina: Excuse me? It's the only SANE option.

Wade: She runs marathons. This is our adventure honeymoon. It's who she is.

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