MEREDITH: [narrating] "We live our lives on the surgical unit. Seven days a week, 14 hours a day, we're together more than we're apart. After a while, the ways of residency becomes the ways of life. Number one: Always keep score. Number two: Do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy. Number three: Don't make friends with the enemy. Oh, yeah, Number four: Everything, everything is a competition. Whoever said winning wasn't everything... Never held a scalpel."• Season 1, Episode 3: "Winning a Battle, Losing the War" • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: [narrating] "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."
• Season 2, Episode 9: "Thanks for the Memories" • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
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."
• Season 2, Episode 9: "Thanks for the Memories" • Rating: 9.7 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: [about her patient] "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."
• Season 2, Episode 9: "Thanks for the Memories" • Rating: 9.3 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: [narrating] "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 life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross. Here's what I know. If you're willing to throw caution to the wind and take a chance, the view from the other side... is spectacular."
• Season 1, Episode 2: "The First Cut is the Deepest" • Rating: 9.9 / 10 • Permalink
DEREK: "So, it’s intense. This thing I have. For ferry boats, I mean."
MEREDITH: "I am so taking the stairs this time."
DEREK: "No self control. It’s sad. Really."
• Season 1, Episode 2: "The First Cut is the Deepest" • Rating: 9.3 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: "Alright... George and Izzie, you can move into the house."
IZZIE: "Yes!"
GEORGE: "I can't believe you caved!"
MEREDITH: "I can't believe I caved."
CRISTINA: "I blame the babies. They make you toxic."
• Season 1, Episode 2: "The First Cut is the Deepest" • Rating: 9.1 / 10 • Permalink
DEREK: "So we're kissing but we're not dating?"
MEREDITH: "I knew this was going to come up."
DEREK: "Don't get me wrong, I like the kissing. I'm all for the kissing. More kissing, I say!"
MEREDITH: "I have no idea what that was about."
DEREK: "Is it going to happen again? Let me know next time. I'll bring breath mints. Put a condom in my wallet."
MEREDITH: "Shut up. Now."
• Season 1, Episode 2: "The First Cut is the Deepest" • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
CRISTINA: "You know, it's like there's a wall. The attendings and the residents are over there being surgeons, and we're over here being-"
MEREDITH: "Suturing, code-running, lab-delivering penis minders."
ALEX: "I hate being an intern."
• Season 1, Episode 2: "The First Cut is the Deepest" • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
MEREDITH: "So anyway, the crap crime scene guy can't get out here 'til tomorrow, so I get to spend the night with my penis!" [pauses] "Alex, don’t say it."
ALEX: "It was too easy anyway."
• Season 1, Episode 2: "The First Cut is the Deepest" • Rating: 9.3 / 10 • Permalink
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