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 | Season 9 / Episode 23: - Readiness is All Dr. Meredith Grey: They hit you out of nowhere. When bad things come, they come suddenly, without a warning. Dr. Meredith Grey: We rarely get to see the catastrophe coming, no matter how well we try to prepare for it. Dr. Meredith Grey: [... ] The bad things come suddenly, without a warning, but we forget that sometimes that's how the good things come too. |
 | Season 8 / Episode 8: - Heart-shaped Box Dr. Meredith Grey: It's a little bit horrifying just how quickly everything can fall to crap. Sometimes, it takes a huge loss to remind you of what you care about the most. Sometimes, you find yourself becoming stronger as a result; wiser, better equipt to deal with the next big disaster that comes along. Sometimes, but, not always. |
 | Season 7 / Episode 9: - Slow Night, So Long Dr. Alex Karev: [Grey and Karev perform surgery without their attending, Dr. Stark and are now sitting in a conference room awaiting the consequences] We did what we were trained to do. Dr. Meredith Grey: Remember the first day? The chief said only two of us would make it. Dr. Meredith Grey, Dr. Alex Karev: [speaks in unison] I thought it'd be me and Cristina. Dr. Alex Karev: How are we the last two standing? |
 | Season 7 / Episode 1: - With You I'm Born Again Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] When we say things like "People don't change" it drives scientists crazy. Because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy, matter, it's always changing. Morphing. Merging. Growing. Dying. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting them be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing, despite every scientific indication, that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change, that's up to us. It can feel like death, or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Dr. Cristina Yang: [to Dr. Owen Hunt] I do. Dr. Meredith Grey: [voiceover] Like at any moment, we can be born all over again. |
 | Season 6 / Episode 23: - Sanctuary Dr. Meredith Grey: For most people, a hospital is a scary place. A hostile place. A place where bad things happen. Most people would prefer church, or school, or home. But I... grew up here. While my mom was on rounds, I learned to read in the O.R. gallery. I played in the morgue. I colored with crayons on old E.R. charts. The hospital was my church... my school... my home. The hospital was my safe place... My sanctuary. I love it here. Correction: loved it here. |
| Season 6 / Episode 23: - Sanctuary Dr. Meredith Grey: I learned to read in the O.R. gallery, played in the morgue, I colored with crayons on old E.R. charts. A hospital was my church, my school, my home, my safe place, my sanctuary. I love it here. Correction: loved it here. |
 | Season 6 / Episode 19: - Sympathy for the Parents Dr. Meredith Grey: Ask Bailey to do it pro-bono. Dr. Alex Karev: I can't ask her to do that. Dr. Meredith Grey: Alex, he's your brother. Dr. Cristina Yang: Evil's spawn has a brother? Dr. Meredith Grey: Aaron, Christina Yang. Aaron Karev: Nice to meet you, Dr. Yang. I'm Aaron Karev. Dr. Cristina Yang: Oh. My God. You're so nice. [to Alex] He's so nice. Why can't you be nice like your brother? [to Aaron] Angel's spawn. Dr. Alex Karev: Why can't you? Dr. Cristina Yang: Fair enough. |
 | Season 6 / Episode 5: - Invasion Dr. Meredith Grey: When you get sick, starts with on single bacteria. Pretty soon, the intruder duplicates... Becomes two. Then those two become four, and those four become eight. Then, before your body knows it... it's under attack. It's an invasion. The question for a doctor is: once the invaders have landed, once they've taken over your body... How the hell do you get rid of them? |
| Season 6 / Episode 5: - Invasion Dr. Meredith Grey: What do you do when the infection hits you... When it's takes over? Do you do what you're supposed to and take your medicine? Or do you learn to live with the thing and hope someday it goes away? Or do you just give up entirely and let it kill you? |
 | Season 6 / Episode 4: - Tainted Obligation Dr. Meredith Grey: We begining life with a few obligations. We pledge allegiance fusto the flag. We swear to return out library books. Buw as we get older, we take vows, we make promises, we get burdened by commitments. To do no harm, to tell the truth and nothing but. To love and cherish till death to us part. So we just keep running up a tab. Until we owe everything to everybody, and suddenly think "what the... " |
| Season 6 / Episode 4: - Tainted Obligation Dr. Meredith Grey: The thing about being a surgeon, everybody wants a piece of you. We take one little oath and suddenly, we're drowning in obligations. To our patients, to our colleagues, to medicine itself. So we do what any sane person would do. We run like hell from our promises, hoping they'll be forgotten. But sooner or later, they always catch up. And sometimes you find the obligation you dread the most isn't worth running from at all. |
 | Season 6 / Episode 3: - I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me Dr. Meredith Grey: We're all susceptible to it. The dread and anxiety of not knowing what's coming. It's pointless in the end. Because all the worrying, and all the making of plans for the things that could happen it only makes things worse. So, walk your dog, or take a nap. Just, whatever you do, stop worrying. Because the only cure for paranoia is to be here. Just the way you are. |
 | Season 6 / Episode 1: - Good Mourning (1) Dr. Meredith Grey: According to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, when we are dying or have suffered a catastrophic loss, we all move through five distinct stages of grief. We go into denial, because the loss is so unthinkable, we can't imagine it's true. We become angry with everyone - angry with survivors, angry with ourselves. Then we bargain. We offer everything we have. We offer up our souls in exchange for just one more day. When the bargaining has failed and the anger is too hard to maintain, we fall into depression, despair, until finally we have to accept that we have done everything we can. We let go. We let go and move into acceptance. Dr. Meredith Grey: In medical school, we have a hundred classes that teach us how to fight off death and not one lesson in how to go on living. |
 | Season 5 / Episode 24: - Now or Never (2) Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you say it? I love you. I don't ever wanna live without you. You changed my life. Did you say it? |
| Season 5 / Episode 24: - Now or Never (2) Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever wanna live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it. But every now and then look around. Drink it in. 'Cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow. |
 | Season 5 / Episode 18: - Stand By Me Dr. Meredith Grey: Meredith [closing voiceover] Practicing medicine doesn't lend itself well to the making of friends. Maybe because life and mortality are in our faces all the time. Maybe because, in staring down death every day, we're forced to know that life, every minute, is borrowed time. And each person we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line. For this reason, I know some doctors who just don't bother making friends at all. But the rest of us, we make it our job to move that line, to push each loss as far away as we can. |
 | Season 5 / Episode 17: - I Will Follow You Into the Dark Dr. Meredith Grey: Every surgeon I know has a shadow. A dark cloud of fear and doubts that follows even the best of us into the or. |
| Season 5 / Episode 17: - I Will Follow You Into the Dark Dr. Meredith Grey: Every surgeon has a shadow. And the only way to get rid of a shadow is to turn off the light. To stop running from the darkness, and face what you fear. Head on. |
 | Season 5 / Episode 3: - Here Comes the Flood Dr. Meredith Grey: [to her shrink in the elevator] what was the point? All those hours and all that money. what's the point? The world is a horrible place. Young people die of diseases. It makes absolutely no sense to try to be happy in a world that's such a horrible place. Dr. Wyatt: [to Meredith] Yes. Dr. Meredith Grey: What? Dr. Wyatt: Yes, horrible things do happen. Happiness in the face of all of that... that's not the goal. Feeling the horrible and knowing that you're not gonna die from those feelings, that's goal. Dr. Wyatt: [she stops the elevator] And you're not done. You've made progress because you're feeling and you're telling me about it. Six months ago, it would've been just you and a bottle of tequila. My door is always open. |
| Season 5 / Episode 3: - Here Comes the Flood Dr. Meredith Grey: Bones break. Organs burst. Flesh tears. We can sew the flesh, repair the damage, ease the pain. But when life breaks down. When we break down. There's no science, no hard and fast rules. We just have to feel our way through, and to a surgeon, there's nothing worse, and there's nothing better. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 16: - Freedom (1) Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm still mad at you. And I don't know if I trust you. I wanna trust you but I don't know if I do, so I'm just gonna try. I'm gonna try and trust you because I believe that we can be extraordinary together rather than ordinary apart. |
| Season 4 / Episode 16: - Freedom (1) Dr. Derek Shepherd: [as he is walking up to Meredith, walking around, surrounded by candles] Meredith.... Dr. Meredith Grey: [unaware that Derek is approaching] Stupid, corny, idiotic, I can't believe I did this. Stupid, loser, son of a ... I could be at home instead of ... oh stupid, stupid brain man! Dr. Derek Shepherd: [smiling] Meredith... |
 | Season 4 / Episode 15: - Losing My Mind Dr. Lexie Grey: I forgive you. Dr. Meredith Grey: Lexie. Dr. Lexie Grey: No. I forgive you. I forgive you for treating me like crap, and I forgive you for letting your friend treat me like crap. Dr. Meredith Grey: Lexie... Dr. Lexie Grey: I don't know how you get up in the morning, I honestly don't. Our dad abandoned you. And your mom by all accounts was the meanest person ever and you can't let Derek love you, and it all really, really sucks. But ever since I knew you existed, I had this fantasy about my big sister, and you have failed on every occasion to live up to that fantasy. But I still love you whether you are capable of letting me or not. So, I forgive you. [storms out of bathroom] Dr. Wyatt: [comes out of bathroom stall] Two o'clock work for you? Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah... ok. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 13: - Piece of My Heart Dr. Meredith Grey: Giving birth may be all intense and magical and stuff but the act itself is not exactly pleasant. But it's also the beginning of something incredible... something new... something unpredictable... something true... something worth loving... something worth missing... something that will change your life forever. |
| Season 4 / Episode 13: - Piece of My Heart Dr. Callie Torres: Um, anyone, uh... anyone ever think you two are a couple? Dr. Meredith Grey: No, because we screw boys like whores on tequila. Dr. Cristina Yang: And then we either try to marry them or drown ourselves. Dr. Callie Torres: Huh. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 12: - Where The Wild Things Are Dr. Lexie Grey: [flowers in the hand that a patient gave to rose] Dr. Meredith Grey: What's with the flowers? Dr. Lexie Grey: Are you asking as a resident or a sister? Dr. Meredith Grey: Sister. Dr. Lexie Grey: I'm stealing stuff. Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay. Dr. Lexie Grey: Are you okay? [since Rose just declared that she loved Derek] Dr. Meredith Grey: [walks away] Resident again now. Stop stealing crap from the hospital. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 10: - Crash Into Me (Part 2) Dr. Meredith Grey: I don't want you to date other people. I may not be enough for you, but I'm trying here so I don't want you to date anybody but me. That's it. Except I'm scared as hell to want you. But here I am wanting you anyway. And the fear means I have something to lose, right? And I don't want to lose you. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 8: - Forever Young Dr. Meredith Grey: There comes a point in your life when you're officially an adult. Suddenly you're old enough to vote, to drink and engage in other adult activities. Suddenly people expect you to be responsible, serious, a grown up. We get taller, We get older. But do we ever really grow up?... In some ways we grow up. We have families. We get married. Divorced. But for the most part, we still have the same problems that we had when we were 15. No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling. Forever wondering. Forever young. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 5: - Haunt You Every Day Dr. Meredith Grey: What are you guys doing up? Dr. Izzie Stevens, Dr. Alex Karev: [Izzie is frosting rice crispy treats and Kerev is carving a pumpkin] Couldn't sleep. Dr. Izzie Stevens: [Meredith pours her mother's ashes into a ziplock black] What is that? Dr. Meredith Grey: My mother. Dr. Alex Karev: Happy freaking Halloween. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 4: - The Heart Of The Matter Dr. Derek Shepherd: You know what I talked about with the other Grey? All the things this Grey won't let me say. Dr. Meredith Grey: You can say anything to me. Dr. Derek Shepherd: I want to marry you. I want to have kids with you. I want to build us a house. I want to settle down and grow old with you. I want to die when I'm 110 years old in your arms. I don't want 48 uninterrupted hours. I want a lifetime. [Meredith takes a few steps back]. Do you see what happens? I say things like that and you fight the urge to run in the opposite direction. It's okay. I understand. I didn't, but now I do, I do. You're just getting started and I've been doing this for a long time. Deep down you're still an intern, and you're not ready. Dr. Meredith Grey: I'm not ready right now, but things can stay the way they are and I'll get ready. Dr. Derek Shepherd: Things can't stay the way they are. We can still meet in the elevator, the on call room. And maybe you'll get ready, and I'll wait. I'll wait until you're ready. Dr. Meredith Grey: Okay then. Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yeah, but what if, what if while I'm waiting I meet someone who is ready to give me what I want from you? Dr. Meredith Grey: What if you do? [the elevator opens in front of them and Derek steps in] Dr. Derek Shepherd: I don't know. [the doors close between them] |
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