| Meredith Grey: [after a one-night stand
with Derek Shepherd] I'm going to go upstairs and take a shower. And when I come
back you won't be here. So goodbye, Derek." ---------------------------------------- Katie
Bryce: My head is full.
Meredith Grey: It's called thinking. Go with it.
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Meredith Grey: Don't
look at me like that, like you've seen me naked. ----------------------------------------
Meredith Grey: I can't think of a single reason why I should be a surgeon, but
I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose...
there are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a
game, and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could
quit but here's the thing, I love the playing field. ----------------------------------------Meredith
Grey: We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop? ----------------------------------------
Meredith Grey: 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 lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross. ----------------------------------------Meredith
Grey: You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales,
that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would
carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close
your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy,
Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow
up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn
to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of
that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope,
of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true. ----------------------------------------
Meredith Grey: At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when
you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may
be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle.
And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See
once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a
while people may even take your breath away. ----------------------------------------Meredith
Grey: A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the
secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can
do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would
listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had
to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear
of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if
you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches
the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend
we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard
our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us
to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make
our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility
under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves
what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that
waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst,
beat the hell out of never trying. ----------------------------------------
Meredith Grey: Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without
it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do
I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop. ---------------------------------------- Meredith
Grey: Intimacy is a four syllable word for, "Here's my heart and soul, please
grind them into hamburger, and enjoy." It's both desired, and feared. Difficult
to live with, and impossible to live without. Intimacy also comes attached to
the three R's... relatives, romance, and roommates. There are some things you
can't escape. And other things you just don't want to know. ---------------------------------------- Meredith
Grey: I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you
when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and
I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep
it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules
of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself. ---------------------------------------- Meredith
Grey: Okay, here it is, your choice... it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she
is really great. But Derek, I love you, in a really, really big pretend to like
your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over
my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you.
So pick me, choose me, love me. - quotes from IMDB.com | 
