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She tells Nick, “I want you in my life if you want to be in my life.
They were leaves on trees.
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I could see the leaves.
And I didn’t even know I was missing the leaves.
I didn’t even know that leaves existed, and then…leaves!
Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 2 episode ‘Bring the Pain’.ABC
You are glasses.”
She then hilariously delivers a profound declaration: “I am so gay.
I am so, so, so gay.
Brooke Smith in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 5 episode ‘Life During Wartime’.ABC
I am extremely gay.”
And there’s an ocean behind your head, and there are ghosts wandering in and out.
I can’t live like this.
Katherine Heigl in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 5 episode ‘Here’s to Future Days’.ABC
And I can’t live if something goes wrong in that surgery.
I don’t want any extraordinary measures taken to keep me alive.
It’s not what I want.
Héctor Elizondo and Jessica Capshaw in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 6 episode ‘Invasion’.ABC
I went crazy when Denny signed the DNR because I didn’t understand.
I didn’t understand, but now I do and I need you to understand.
I don’t want you to go crazy.
Ellen Pompeo in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 2 episode ‘Damage Case’.ABC
c’mon don’t cut LVADs.
Just…if it comes down to it, just let me go.
And right now, kiss me.
Patrick Dempsey and Kate Walsh in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 2 episode ‘17 Seconds’.ABC
like, like just kiss me and close your eyes because the beach is so distracting."
“Pretty much everything my father did his whole life was about honoring that sacrifice.
I was raised to be a good man in a storm,” Arizona tells Mr. Torres.
Chandra Wilson in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 6 episode ‘Blink’.ABC
“Raised to love my country.
To love my family.
To protect the things I love.
Sandra Oh in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 2 episode ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head’.ABC
My father believes in country the way that you believe in God.
I’m a good man in a storm.
I love your daughter.
Jessica Capshaw in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 7 episode ‘White Wedding’.ABC
And I protect the things that I love.
Not that I need to.
She doesn’t need it.
Kevin McKidd in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 5 episode ‘No Good at Saying Sorry’.ABC
She’s strong and caring and honorable.
And she’s who you raised her to be.”
“I was done.
Katherine Heigl, Mickey Maxwell, and Justin Chambers in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 5 episode ‘What a Difference a Day Makes’.Scott Garfield/ABC
So all the boys, and all the bars, and all the obvious daddy issues, who cared?
Because I was done.
I’m all glued back together now.
Ellen Pompeo in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 4 episode ‘Freedom’.ABC
I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke.
You don’t get to call me a whore.”
“I want you to care.
Chyler Leigh in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 6 episode ‘Tainted Obligation’.ABC
I sleep with your best friend and you walk away.
“What do I have to do?
Oh, I know.
Sandra Oh in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 5 episode ‘Rise Up’.ABC
But, oh wait, that won’t work either because I’m not Meredith Grey!”
People call me the Nazi, and it’s not because of my ice-blue eyes.
I spend 12 hours a day carving people up and I like it.
Katherine Heigl in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 2 episode ‘17 Seconds’.ABC
I have a child and I have no room for casual anything.
So, he urinates in a lot of places you’d wish he wouldn’t urinate.
You want lunch or you wanna show me the scan?”
Ellen Pomepo and Patrick Dempsey in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 5 episode ‘Elevator Love Letter’.Randy Holmes/ABC
He’s missing it…
I need a minute to miss my brother."
I don’t wanna torture you.
Chyler Leigh in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 8 episode ‘Let the Bad Times Roll’.ABC
I don’t wanna look at you longingly when I know I can’t be with you.
So, yeah, I’m smiling and I’m saying, ‘Take care now.’
I’m letting you off the hook….
Cristina Yang in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 10 episode ‘Fear (of the Unknown)'.ABC
I’m just trying to make it right."
All my life I’ve been just me, just a smart-mouth kid.
Today, I become a man.
Katherine Heigl in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 1 episode ‘No Man’s Land’.ABC
Today, I become a husband.
Today, I become accountable to someone other than myself.
Together, no matter what happens, I’ll be ready.
Chandra Wilson and Patrick Dempsey in the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ season 4 episode ‘Forever Young’.ABC
For anything, for everything.
To take on life, to take on love, to take on possibility and responsibility.
Today, Izzie Stevens, our life together begins.
And I, for one, can’t wait."
However, Derek showing up late makes Meredith spiral with conflicting emotions.
“And now Im here feeling like a lame-ass loser.
I don’t know if I trust you.
“You have his blood.
And I know that hes not your dad.
I know that he was never there for you.
And I would never ask you to give him anything.
He doesnt deserve a thing from you.
But he’s…he’s gonna die, Meredith,” she says.
“And so Im asking you to give something to me.
Im asking…I am asking you to give me my dad.
Because as crappy as he was to you, God, he was wonderful to me.
He never missed a single dance recital.
He was there at my 5th-grade graduation.
Thats not even real.
I know hes not your dad, I know that.
But, somehow, you have his blood and I dont.
So Im asking you…give me my dad.”
In a car accident, I was with him in the car.
When he died, my hands felt his heart stop beating.
That’s why I do this.”
“What about me?”
What about me when you go to the light?
You’ll be ok, you’ll be fine, but what about me?
Denny:“For dying?”
Izzie:“No!
For making me love you!”
“If there’s a crisis, you don’t freeze.
You get the rest of us to move forward because you’ve seen worse, you’ve survived worse.
And you know we’ll survive, too,” he tells her.
“You say you’re all dark and twisty.
That’s not a flaw, it’s a strength.
It makes you who you are.
I’m not gonna get down on one knee.
I’m not gonna ask a question.
I love you, Meredith Grey.
And I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
“I love you and I have been trying not to say it,” she says.
“I have been trying so hard to just mash it down and ignore it and not say it….
I am so in love with you.
And you’re in me.
It’s like you’re a disease.
It’s like I am infected by Mark Sloan.
I can’t breathe.
I can’t eat.
And I love you.”
Don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need.
He’s very dreamy.
But he is not the sun.
“You wanna see it?
Fine, let’s take a look at that tattoo up close and personal, shall we?”
Izzie says while angrily taking off her clothes.
“What are these?
Oh, my God, breasts!
How does anybody practice medicine hauling these things around?
And what have we got back here?
Let’s see if I remember my anatomy.
Let’s study them, shall we?
Gather around and check out the booty that put Izzie Stevens through med school.
Have you had enough or should I continue because I have a few more very interesting tattoos?
You wanna call me Dr. Model?
“Guys like you who don’t see girls like me.
We don’t exist for you.
We exist to do your homework.
We exist to build your ego up.
I am a successful married mother.
I am chief resident.
I am chief resident of a major metropolitan hospital.
I’m a surgeon who saved his life today.
And he still doesn’t see me.
All those late nights tutoring him, and it didn’t even occur to him to ask.”
