Grey's Anatomy Wisdom.

Quotes and Voice-overs from the hit ABC show Grey's Anatomy, accompanied by excerpts from the Grey's Anatomy Writer's Blog and the Grey's Anatomy Official Podcasts.

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Alex Karev would not be the man he is without loving or being loved by you. Violence isn't your birthright or your inheritance. It is something you survived because you are the opposite of that.

Meredith Grey, (15x24, Drawn To The Blood)

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If you don't think you're worthy of love, if you don't think your love is valuable, you're wrong.

Carolyn Shepherd (15x21, Good Shepherd)

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He's your Altman. Somebody so good and unbroken and kind that they just seem wrong for you, but really you've never been happier.

Tom Koracick (15x22, Head Over High Heels)

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I love you. You are my first love. I know I'm not yours and that's okay, but you are mine.

Levi Schmitt (15x16, Blood and Water) 

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I don't need to call her (Izzie). I know how she is. She's uh, she's married, with three kids and she lives somewhere... I think, uh, kinda woodsy. She's a surgeon, she goes to work every day. She refuses to hire help so her house is always a mess and it has Christmas decorations all over it because she won't let her husband take them down. Smells like muffins and she's... she's smiling. When I picture her she's always smiling. I don't need to call her because I want her to stay that way.

Alex Karev (14x07, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells...)

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George might be the one who broke his vows, but you? We're women, Izzie. You did this to another woman. You took something from me. You stole something, like a petty little thief. You are the one who should be humiliated. You are the one who should be ashamed. You are the one who should... Don't you dare come to me for forgiveness, you traitorous bitch.

Callie Torres (4x04, The Heart of The Matter)

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Do you know how long I've wanted this? My entire career. And when I finally get it, there's blood on it.

Preston Burke, (3x09, From A Whisper To A Scream)

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How do you keep your edge, sir? Because I watch you, and you've been doing this a long time, and you're clean. You're focused when you're on the job. Nothing gets to you. And the thing is, sir, I was like that. Until I got here. Until I actually started doing this job and now everything is... is fuzzy. You see, sir, this is the point. Because I can't tell you. What happened in that room, I can't tell you. And before, I could have. No guilt, no loyalties, no problem. Before... before I wouldn't even have been in that room. I wouldn't have gotten involved. I would have never frozen in surgery, and I would have told him what I thought he should do. I had an edge, sir. I had an edge and I've lost it. And I need it. I need it back. So, if you could just tell me how you keep yours, and how not to be affected, I know I could be a great surgeon.

Cristina Yang, (2x27, Losing My Religion)

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Let's say you were drafted to a team that wasn't your first pick, you know? You don't like the players, you hate the way they play the game. You even think the quaterback's is full of crap. The quaterback's a pain in the ass that you don't owe a damned thing to. But, it's your team. You don't quit. You don't talk to the press. You don't bitch to the coach. You just go out there every Sunday and you make the blocks, and you take the hits, and you play to win. You show up, and you suit up, and you play. Because it's your freaking team.

Alex Karev, (2x27, Losing My Religion)

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In life, we are taught that there are seven deadly sins. We all know the big ones: gluttony, pride, lust. But the thing you don't hear much about is anger. Maybe it's because we think anger is not that dangerous, that you can control it. My point is, maybe we don't give anger enough credit. Maybe it can be a lot more dangerous than we think. After all, when it comes to destructive behaviour, it did make the top seven. So what makes anger different from the six other deadly sins? It's pretty simple really. You give in to a sin like envy or pride and you only hurt yourself. Try lust or coveting and you'll only hurt yourself and one or two others. But anger? Anger is the worst. The mother of all sins. Not only can anger drive you over the edge, but when it does you can take an awful lot of people with you.

Meredith Grey, (2x25, 17 Seconds)

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And here’s the thing you need to know: in my first draft of Part 1, Gary Clark shot Bailey. Bailey. He shot her. And I wrote it and then I couldn’t sleep, for days and days, I could not sleep and I had to remove it from the script. Bailey getting shot was just too much for me. She’s our anchor. She’s the soul. Mer is the heart but Bailey is the soul and so I had to delete it. Because there was no way I could go on if Bailey had a bullet wound.

Shonda Rhimes on ‘Sanctuary’ and ‘Death and All His Friends’...

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If you want crappy things to stop happening to you then stop accepting crap and demand something more.

Cristina Yang, (2x19, What Have I Done To Deserve This?)

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The man I love has a wife, and then he chooses her over me. And then that wife takes my dog. Okay, she didn’t take the dog. I gave it to her, but I didn’t mean to give it to her, I meant to give it to him. But that does not change the fact that she’s got my McDreamy, and my McDog. She’s got my McLife. And what have I got? You know, I can’t remember the last time we kissed, cause you never think the last time is the last time. You think there’ll be more. You think you have forever but you don’t.

Meredith Grey, (2x16, It’s The End Of The World)

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She wanted me to tell you that if love were enough, she'd still be here with you.

Derek Shepherd, (2x06, Into You Like A Train)

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As she says in the first episode, she needs a reason to go on, she needs some hope. Which is why she has to picture Derek to get through it. And at the end, when he shows up at her house, she has to ask.  She has to ask him about their last kiss because if she’s ever going to get out of that bed again and keep going, she needs a reason. She needs to know there’s someone out there for her. She needs some hope. And Derek describes that last kiss, the last kiss they had as a happy couple, in such perfect detail that Meredith knows she’ll be okay. Because he wouldn’t remember that kiss so well if he didn’t love her. He couldn’t. It’s her sign.

From Shonda: It’s the end of the episode (as we know it)

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For the first time, the majority of our interns are outside the hospital. Which meant figuring out a way to have medical cases without having “medical cases”. How was I going to have patients? You need patients on a medical show. That’s why they call it a medical show. So I sulked. Then I lay on the floor of my office for a while and thought about running away to Italy. Then I opened my office door and told everyone that I would never write again and that my career was over. Then I ate a lot of candy. And then I came up with an idea.

From Shonda Rhimes, creator and writer of “Thanks For The Memories” 

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We needed to show George grieving in a new way for Grey’s. We didn’t want to repeat any beats of Izzie’s grief. And because we knew we had to build to that proposal, we wanted to have George burying his grief in Callie. And in a way that would bother his best friend Izzie. We also wanted Callie to feel some remorse. She finally got George, but not in the way she wanted. She’s gotten his body, but the underlying relationship isn’t there anymore.

“Great Expectations” for Eric Buchman (and his blog)