Brooke Davis
- Just maybe - OTH
Okay, do you understand how ridiculous this is? I have to make clothes to get my parents attention. That unless I spin the straw into gold or attract investors you two chime in on the holiday's at best? Yet I still do it, why? Because I have some insane notion that someday the clothes are going to bring us closer. And that maybe... just maybe, mom, my parent's will actually want to spend time with me.
Brooke Davis
- Drive - OTH- Part 2
2 AM, 3 AM, 4 AM. We drive and we think... and we fuss a bit. Sometimes we eat. Well, I eat. I guess some people might let it wear on them, the lack of sleep. But I don't mind it, really I like Tree Hill like this. I like my car like this. Warm... Safe... Loved. It's what I wished for. Mostly. Sometimes my heart aches at how my life turned out, in a good way. It doesn't mean there haven't been hardships, there have been. But I'm here, and here is good.
Brooke Davis
- Drive - OTH -Part 1
They like it when I drive. So I drive. It's funny. I grew up in Tree Hill. I've spent most of my life here, but it wasn't until my sons were born and couldn't sleep, that I really got to know this place. That used to be my view of Tree Hill at 2 AM. Well, my partial view. Now this is my view. We drive the same streets I drove in High School and listen to the same music... at least, when we can agree. Sometimes we try the '80s, sometimes classic rock.
Finn Dandridge
- I have plans
Liz... Liz was my wife. When she died... you do this thing where you stop making plans. Because you had plans but then there was a car crash and your plans disappeared so you just... I just try to get from sunup to sundown. That's as far into the future as I can handle. I've been fine with that, I have, but right now, looking at you... damn, I have all kinds of plans. Don't freak out.
Derek Sheperd
- Looking at you
You think I want to look at you? That I wouldn't rather be looking at my wife? I'm married. I have responsibilities. She doesn't drive me crazy. She doesn't make it impossible for me to feel normal. She doesn't make me sick to my stomach thinking about my veterinarian touching her with his hands. Man, I would give anything to not be look at you!
Meredith Grey
- Looking at me
You are looking at me, and you watch me. I know Finn has plans. I like Finn. He's perfect for me, and I'm really trying here to be happy. I feel like I can't breathe. I can't breathe with you looking at me like that, so just stop!
Adele - Grey's Anatomy
- Do it for me - Part 2
I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. You're going to make this up to Camille. You're going to prioritize the needs of your family above the needs of your other patients or... or you're going to find a new place to sleep.
Adele - Grey's Anatomy
- Do it for me - Part 1
If you don't want to bend your precious rules for Camille, fine. Don't do it for her, do it for me. Do it for your wife who never asks you for anything, who says nothing about your long hours, who looks the other way while you have an affair with another woman, who sobered you up when that woman left you, who stayed with you when everyone said I'd be better off alone.
Meredith Grey
- Juliet was an idiot
Mrs. Snyder used to make 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.
Miranda Bailey
- I'm pregnant
My heart rate is 110, I'm burning 3,000 calories a day, my legs are swollen, I've got indigestion and gas. Did you know carrying a boy in your uterus means you burn 10 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.
Meredith Grey
- Fate - Part 2
Mrs. Snyder said that I'd be lucky if I ever had that kind of passion with someone, and 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 sometimes, despite all your best intentions, fate wins anyway.
Meredith Grey
- Fate - Part 1
Mrs. Snyder explained to me that when fate comes into play, choice sometimes goes out the window. 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.
Meredith Grey
- Denial
The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny 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.
Meredith Grey
- Being Gratful
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.
Meredith Grey
- Not always a good thing
When you're a kid, it's Halloween candy. You hide it from your parents and you eat it until you get sick. In college, it's 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. Because good things aren't always what they seem. Too much of anything, even love, is not always a good thing.
Cristina Yang
- Good Idea?
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 Grey
- The Beatles
Forty years ago, the Beatles asked the world a question. They wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from 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.
Meredith Grey
- John Donne
Four hundred years ago, another 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 onto himself. Boil down that island talk and he just means 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.
Miranda Bailey
- Be on his side
I get the joke. I 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 makes mistakes at his job all the time. As far as I know he's never killed anyone but I have. And YOU WILL. 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.
Sydney Heron
- Earn some respect
With all due respect, Dr. Burke, I know you don't know me very well but I'm pretty good at what I do. And my patient is a 25-year-old marathoner, and I told her husband I would try and save her leg. So, my plan is to stand here as long as it takes to scape away every last cell of necrotic flesh. And when I do, our eager young intern here can hold the saw. Unlike Dr. Karev, kindness and compassion ain't very high on her list of priorities. Maybe that will earn me some respect.
