( * & . – GREY’S ANATOMY SENTENCE STARTERS .
* taken from monologues at the beginning & end of episodes .
‘ i love you . i don’t ever want to live without you . you’ve changed my life . ’
‘ i don’t ever want to live without you . ’
‘ you’ve changed my life . ’
‘ drink it in ‘cause this is it . it might all be gone tomorrow . ’
‘ it’s not so important that it’s happy ever after – just that it’s happy right now . ’
‘ see , once in a while , once in a blue moon , people will surprise you . ’
‘ once in awhile , people may even take your breath away . ’
‘ 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 . ’
‘ you can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them . ’
‘ a the end of the day , the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate . ’
‘ no matter how much we hurt them , the people that are still with you at the end of the day , those are the ones worth keeping . ’
‘ sometimes close can be too close , but sometimes that invasion of personal space , it can be exactly what you need . ’
‘ change , we don’t like it . we fear it , but we can’t stop it from coming . ’
‘ we either adapt to change or we get left behind . ’
‘ it hurts to grow . anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying . ’
‘ sometimes the more things change , the more they stay the same . ’
‘ don’t wonder why people go crazy . wonder why they don’t . in face of what we lose in a day , in an instant , wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it together . ’
‘ no matter how thick - skinned we try to be , there’s millions of electrified nerve endings in there , open & exposed & feeling way too much . ’
‘ try as we might to keep from feeling pain , sometimes it’s just unavoidable . ’
‘ sometimes that’s the only thing left , just feeling . ’
‘ nothing’s easy about starting over . nothing at all . ’
‘ your life is a gift . accept it . no matter how screwed up or painful it seems to be . ’
‘ some things are going to work out as if they were destined to happen , as if they were just meant to be . ’
‘ the body doesn’t know the difference between nerves & excitement , panic & doubt , the beginning & the end . the boy just tells you to get the hell out . ’
‘ you’re supposed to trust your gut , right ? when your body says run . . . run . ’
‘ failure is inevitable , unavoidable , but failure should never get the last word . ’
‘ just because we can live without something doesn’t mean we have to . ’
‘ maybe love is unlimited if we’re just brave enough to decide love is limitless . ’
‘ maybe there’s enough happy for everyone . ’
‘ shout your answers . make yourself heard . whatever it takes , just find your voice . ’
‘ the thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free . ’
‘ once your secrets are out in the open , you don’t have to hide behind them anymore . ’
‘ for the most part we have the same problems we had when we were fifteen . ’
‘ you don’t have to be tough every minute of every day . ’
‘ we all think we’re going to be great & we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t meant . ’
‘ sometimes our expectations sell us short . ’
‘ sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected . ’
‘ too often the thing you want most is the one thing you can’t have . ’
‘ desire leaves us heartbroken . it wears us out . desire can wreck your life . ’
‘ heaven , hell , limbo . no one really knows where we’re going or what’s waiting for us when we get there . ’
‘ if this was your last day on earth , how would you wanna spend it ? ’
‘ here’s the truth about the truth : it hurts . so we lie . ’
‘ lying is bad . or so we’re told consistently from birth . ’
‘ whatever . the fact is , lying is a necessity . ’
‘ we lie to ourselves because the truth . . . the truth freaking hurts . ’
‘ it’s a little bit horrifying just how quickly everything can fall to crap . ’
‘ sometimes it takes a huge loss to remind you of what you care about the most . ’
‘ after a loss , you find yourself becoming stronger as a result . wiser , better equipped to deal with the next big disaster that comes along . sometimes . . . but not always . ’
‘ at the end of the day , faith is a funny thing . it turns up when you don’t really expect it . ’
‘ the body is a slave to its impulses . ’
‘ the thing that makes us human is what we can control . ’
‘ we can try to let go of what was . ’
‘ ask most people what they want out of life & the answer’s simple : to be happy . ’
‘ the want to be happy , that just keeps us from ever getting there . ’
‘ the more we try to will ourselves to states of bliss , the more confused we get to the point where we don’t recognize ourselves . ’
‘ instead , we just keep smiling , trying like hell to be the happy people we wish we were . ’
‘ we’re human , life changes us . ’
‘ for better or for worse , find a way to become more than your biology . ’
‘ finding the way back to ourselves can be difficult ; there’s no compass , no map . ’
‘ adapt or die . as many times as we’ve heard it , the lesson doesn’t get easier . ’
‘ problem is , we’re human . ’
‘ problem is , we’re human . we want more than just to survive – we want love . ’
‘ fight like hell to get those things . anything else feels like death . ’
‘ pain . . . you just have to ride it out , hope it goes away on its own , hope the wound that caused it heals . ’
‘ there are no solutions , no easy answers . ’
‘ just breathe deep & wait for it to subside . ’
‘ most of the time pain can be managed , but sometimes the pain gets you when you least expect it . ’
‘ pain . . . you just have to fight through because the truth is you can’t outrun it & life always makes more . ’
‘ sometimes even the best of us make rash decisions – bad decisions . ’
‘ but still , something inside us decides to do a crazy thing – a thing we know will probably turn around & bite us in the ass . yet we do it anyway . ’
‘ what i’m saying is we reap what we sow . what goes around comes around . ’
‘ it’s karma & any way you slice it . . . karma sucks. ’
