Quotes
Dr. Meredith Grey: [after a one-night stand with Derek Shepherd] Look, I’m gonna go upstairs and take a shower, OK? And when I get back down here, you won’t be here.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you let me scrub in for this operation because I slept with you?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yes.
[pause]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Just kidding.
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Dr. Cristina Yang: I get angry when I go without sleep.
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Dr. Derek Shepherd: It’s a beautiful day to save lives. Let’s have some fun.
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Katie Bryce: My head is full.
Dr. Meredith Grey: It’s called thinking. Go with it.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: Don’t look at me like that.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Like what?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Like you’ve seen me naked!
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Katie Bryce: You are so lost.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I am not lost. Okay?
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Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: [standing in the bathroom, outside the shower, where George is] I reminded you before you went.
Dr. George O’Malley: I forgot when I got there.
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: No.
[she opens the shower door]
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: No, you were so passive aggressive!
Dr. George O’Malley: Naked! I am naked in the shower!
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: [closes the shower door] Just tampons, George! I really needed tampons. God!
[Meredith enters the bathroom]
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: I’m not riding in the same car as him.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [looks at Izzie, who is standing in her "Hello Kitty" underwear] Unless you’re going like that, you’re not riding with me either. Where are the tampons?
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: He didn’t buy them.
Dr. Meredith Grey: [to George] You didn’t buy them?
Dr. George O’Malley: Men don’t buy tampons!
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: [opens the shower door again, and George falls over] You know what? You’re gonna have to get over the whole man thing, George! We’re women! We have vaginas! Get used to it!
[she walks out of the bathroom, leaving George lying on the floor of the shower]
Dr. George O’Malley: I am not your sister!
[he slams the shower door]
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Dr. Preston Burke: The only person that can keep a promise so big is God, and I haven’t seen him pick up a scalpel lately.
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Dr. Derek Shepherd: [to a patient and rapist whose victim bit off his penis] I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we managed to stop the bleeding. The bad news is that we gave your penis to the cops.
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Dr. Derek Shepherd: It’s not the chase.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You and me. It is not the thrill of the chase. It’s not a game. It’s… it’s your tiny ineffectual fists. And your hair.
Dr. Meredith Grey: My hair?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: It smells good. And you’re very, very ballsy. It keeps me in line.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I’m still not going out with you.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You say that now…
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Dr. Richard Webber: Just shut up and count backwards already.
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Dr. George O’Malley: Uh, Mr. Mackie I can’t go out with you. You’re not my type, I mean, you’re a guy.
Lloyd Mackie: George, I knew you weren’t gay.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: I can’t think of a single reason why I should be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose… there are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it’s more than just a game, and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit but here’s the thing, I love the playing field.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: We’re adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?
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Dr. Meredith Grey: At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how we’re made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines… that are way too dangerous to cross.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we hadn’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: [about her new roommates] They’re everywhere. All the time. Izzie’s all perky and George does this where he’s helpful and considerate. They share food, and they say things, and they move things, and they breathe. Ugh, they’re, like, happy
Dr. Cristina Yang: Kick them out.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I can’t kick them out, they just moved in. I asked them to move in.
Dr. Cristina Yang: So what, you’re just going to repress everything in some deep, dark, twisted place until one day you snap and you kill them?
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Dr. Cristina Yang: If I miss a real procedure because of this case, they’re gonna call me 007 because I killed you.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we’re wired that way. Because without it, I don’t know; maybe we just wouldn’t feel real. What’s that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: You’re my teacher’s teacher. And my teacher.
Dr. Derek Shepherd: I’m your sister. I’m your daughter.
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Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: [to Alex] You wanna see it? You really wanna see it? Fine! Let’s look at that tattoo up close and personal, shall we?
[she rips off her shirt]
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: What are these? Oh, my God! Breasts! How does anybody practice medicine hauling these things around? And what have we got back here? Lets see if I remember my anatomy.
[takes off her pants]
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: Gluts, right? Lets study them, shall we? Gather around and check out the booty that put Izzie Stevens through Med. school! You wanna call me Dr. Model? That’s fine. But just remember that while you’re all still sitting on 200 grand of student loans, I’m out of debt.
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Dr. Cristina Yang: You are eight feet tall. Your boobs are perfect. Your hair is down to there. If I was you I would just walk around naked all the time. I wouldn’t have a job, I wouldn’t have any skills, I wouldn’t even know how to read. I would just be… naked.
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: It’s makeup. It’s retouching.
Dr. Cristina Yang: You get that we hate you, right?
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Dr. George O’Malley: 007. They’re calling me 007, aren’t they?
Izzie & Meredith: No-one’s calling you 007.
Dr. George O’Malley: I was on the elevator and Murphy whispered 007.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, how many times are we going to go through this, George? Five, ten? Give me a number or else I’m gonna hit you.
Dr. George O’Malley: Murphy whispered 007 and everyone laughed.
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: He wasn’t talking about you.
Dr. George O’Malley: Are you sure?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Would we lie to you?
Dr. George O’Malley: Yes!
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Dr. George O’Malley: I don’t think you understand. Me – gonads! You – ovaries!
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: Oh, that reminds me. We are out of tampons.
Dr. George O’Malley: You’re parading through the bathroom in your underwear, while I’m naked in the shower!
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: Will you add it to your list, please?
Dr. George O’Malley: What?
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: Tampons!
Dr. Meredith Grey: To the list. It’s your turn.
Dr. George O’Malley: I am a man! I don’t buy girl products. I don’t want to see you walking in while I’m in the shower. And I don’t wanna see you in your underwear!
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: It doesn’t bother me, okay? Look at me in my underwear, George. Take your time, it’s no big deal.
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Dr. Alex Karev: Morning, Dr. Model.
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: Dr. Evil Spawn.
Dr. Alex Karev: [he sees a tattoo on her lower stomach] Ooooh, nice tat. Do they airbrush that out for the catalogs?
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: I don’t know. What do they do for the 666 on your skull?
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Dr. Alex Karev: What are you doing?
Dr. George O’Malley: Hiding. There’s this VIP patient. He likes me.
Dr. Alex Karev: Well, that’s good, right?
Dr. George O’Malley: He *likes me*, likes me.
Dr. Alex Karev: Go for it, man. Get yours, I’m down with the rainbow.
[George gives him a strange look]
Dr. Alex Karev: Oh, are you not gay?
Dr. George O’Malley: No.
Dr. Alex Karev: Really? Dude, sorry.
[he walks away]
Dr. George O’Malley: [Cristina walks up] Cristina! Do you… does Meredith think I’m gay?
Dr. Cristina Yang: Are you?
Dr. George O’Malley: No!
Dr. Cristina Yang: Really?
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Dr. Cristina Yang: [they all see the Nazi] That’s the Nazi?
Dr. George O’Malley: I thought the Nazi would be a man.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I thought the Nazi would be… the Nazi.
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: [Izzie walks up behind them] Maybe it’s professional jealousy. Maybe she’s brilliant and they call her a Nazi because they’re jealous. Maybe she’s nice.
Dr. Cristina Yang: Let me guess – you’re the model.
[Izzie gives her an evil look]
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: [to the Nazi] Hi, I’m Isobel Stevens, but everyone just calls me Izzie.
Dr. Miranda Bailey: I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don’t bother sucking up. I already hate you, that’s not gonna change.
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Dr. Meredith Grey: I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you’ve crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don’t know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.
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Mr. Levangie: I know it’s not perfect, but it’s life. Life is messy sometimes.
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Dr. George O’Malley: This shift is a marathon, not a sprint. Eat.
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: I can’t.
Dr. George O’Malley: You should eat something.
Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens: You try eating after performing 17 rectal exams. The Nazi hates me.
Dr. George O’Malley: The Nazi’s a resident. I have attendings hating me.
