Meredith: [narrating] We like to think that we are rational beings; humane, conscientious, civilized, thoughtful. But when things fall apart, even just a little, it becomes clear we are not better than animals. We have opposable thumbs, we think, we walk erect, we speak, we dream, but deep down we are still routing around in the primordial ooze; biting, clawing, scratching out an existence in the cold, dark world like the rest of the tree-toads and sloths.• Episode: Where The Wild Things Are • Rating: 8.7 / 10 • Permalink
Meredith: [narrating] There’s a little animal in all of us and maybe that’s something to celebrate. Our animal instinct is what makes us seek comfort, warmth, a pack to run with. We may feel caged, we may feel trapped, but still as humans we can find ways to feel free. We are each other’s keepers, we are the guardians of our own humanity and even though there’s a beast inside all of us, what sets us apart from the animals is that we can think, feel, dream and love. And against all odds, against all instinct, we evolve.
• Episode: Where The Wild Things Are • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
Meredith: (narrating) Great surgeons aren't made. They're born. It takes gestation, incubation, sacrifice. A lot of sacrifice. But after all the blood and guts and gooey stuff is washed away, that surgeon you become: totally worth it.
• Episode: Piece of My Heart • Rating: 9.0 / 10 • Permalink
Meredith: (narrating) Giving birth may be all intense and magical and stuff, but the act itself: it's not exactly pleasant. But it's also a beginning... of something incredible. Something new. Something unpredictable. Something true. Something worth loving. Something worth missing. Something that will change your life... forever.
• Episode: Piece of My Heart • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
Meredith: Hey, you're leaving already?
Addison: I have a plane to catch...I walk on the beach now, I buy aromatherapy candles, I'm very Zen, but I want to kick your ass so badly right now it is killing me.
Meredith: Excuse me?
Addison: I'm talking about Derek. Derek Christopher Shepherd. Are you letting him get away? Because I swear to God Meredith, if you let him ride off into the sunset with that doe-eyed little thing...
• Episode: Piece of My Heart • Rating: 9.2 / 10 • Permalink
Callie: Did anyone ever think you two were a couple?
Meredith: No, because we screw boys like whores on tequila.
Cristina: Then we either try to marry them or drown ourselves.
Callie: Huh.
• Episode: Piece of My Heart • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink
Meredith: What's with the flowers?
Lexie: Uh, are you asking as a resident or a sister?
• Episode: Where The Wild Things Are • Rating: 8.4 / 10 • Permalink
Meredith: There are about a hundred steps between where we are and our dream house. They’ll be fun steps. They’ll be sexy steps. And we’ll try not to fall down them together. Okay?
• Episode: Lay Your Hands On Me • Rating: 8.5 / 10 • Permalink
Meredith: Dr. Hahn... shut up!
• Episode: Crash Into Me, Part II • Rating: 9.9 / 10 • Permalink
Meredith: [narrating] Some days ... the whole world seems upside down. And then somehow, and probably, and when you least expect it, the world rights itself again.
• Episode: Crash Into Me, Part II • Rating: 9.5 / 10 • Permalink
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