MEREDITH: "Where'd you grow up? What's your favorite flavor of ice cream? Where'd you spend your summer vacations?"DEREK: "Oh, lighten up. It'll be good for your blood pressure."
MEREDITH: "Don't you tell me to lighten up. I'll lighten up when I... feel light."
• Season 1, Episode 8: "Save Me" • Rating: 9.5 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: "Give me something to go on. Anything! What are your grandparents’ names?"
DEREK: "I don't have grandparents."
• Season 1, Episode 8: "Save Me" • Rating: 8.8 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: "I want facts, and until I get them, my pants are staying on."
DEREK: "Or you could just roll with it, be flexible. See what happens."
MEREDITH: "I'm not flexible."
DEREK: [laughs] "Now there I disagree... We'll find these things out. That's the fun part, you know? That's the gravy."
• Season 1, Episode 8: "Save Me" • Rating: 9.8 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: "You know 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’d carry you away to a castle on a hill. You’d lie in your bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa clause, the tooth fairy, prince charming -- they were so close you could taste them. But eventually you grow up and 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, it’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely because almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope and faith that one day they would open their eyes and it would all come true."
• Season 1, Episode 8: "Save Me" • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
DEREK: "Hey."
MEREDITH: "Hey! You okay? You seem ..."
DEREK: "Yeah. You know... holidays."
MEREDITH: "Oh. Yeah. I do know."
• Season 2, Episode 12: "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" • Rating: 9.3 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: [to Alex] "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."
• Season 2, Episode 12: "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" • Rating: 9.7 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: [narrating] "The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven'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 like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying."
• Season 1, Episode 6: "If Tomorrow Never Comes" • Rating: 9.9 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: "No. I can't, I'm seeing someone."
ALEX: "Look, if you don't want to go out with me just say so, you don't need to lie."
MEREDITH: "Oh, okay. I don't want to go out with you... and I think I might be seeing someone."
• Season 1, Episode 6: "If Tomorrow Never Comes" • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: "Are you really as shallow and callous as you seem?"
ALEX: "Want to grab a drink and hear about my secret pain?"
MEREDITH: "Does that line ever work for you?"
ALEX: "Sometimes."
• Season 1, Episode 6: "If Tomorrow Never Comes" • Rating: 9.3 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: "Dr. Shepherd? I'm sorry I called you a jackass."
DEREK: [pauses] "You didn't."
MEREDITH: "Actually I did... twice."
• Season 1, Episode 6: "If Tomorrow Never Comes" • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
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