Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

Winning a Battle, Losing the War (2005)

Ellen Pompeo: Dr. Meredith Grey

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• Dr. Derek Shepherd : It's not the chase.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : What?

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : You and me. It is not the thrill of the chase. It's not a game. It's... it's your tiny, ineffectual fists. And your hair.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : My hair?

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : It smells nice. And you're very, very bossy. It keeps me in line.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : I'm still not going out with you.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : You say that now.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : They're everywhere. All the time. Izzie's all perky and George does this thing where he's helpful and considerate. They share food, and they say things, and they move things, and they breathe. Ugh, they're, like, happy.

  Dr. Cristina Yang : Kick them out.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : I can't kick them out, they just moved in. I asked them to move in.

  Dr. Cristina Yang : So what, you're just going to repress everything in some deep, dark, twisted place until one day you snap and you kill them?

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Yep

  Dr. Cristina Yang : That's why we are friends

• Dr. Meredith Grey : We live out our lives on the surgical unit. Seven days a week, fourteen hours a day. We're together more than we're apart. After a while, the ways of residency become the ways of life. Number 1: Always keep score. Number 2: Do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy. Number 3: Don't make friends with the enemy. Oh yea, and number 4: Everything... *Everything* is a competition. Whoever said winning wasn't everything never held a scalpel. There's another way to survive this competition. A way that no one ever seems to tell you about. One you have to learn for yourself. Number 5: It's not about the race at all. There are no winners or losers. Victories are counted by the number of lives saved. And once in a while, if you're smart, the life you save could be your own.

• Dr. Cristina Yang : It kills you, doesn't it?

  Dr. Alex Karev : What?

  Dr. Cristina Yang : That two women caught the harvest.

  Dr. Alex Karev : No, it kills me that anybody got the harvest but me. Boobs do not factor into this equation. Unless, uh, you want to show me yours.

  [Meredith and Cristina look at each other] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : I'm going to become a lesbian.

  Dr. Cristina Yang : Me too.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : We are sooooo going to hell. Burke's sending us straight to hell.

  Dr. Cristina Yang : On an express train.

• Viper : [after kissing Meredith]  That was for good luck. Don't worry, darling, you'll see me again.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : For your sake, I hope not!

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [to Alex]  How do you manage to make everything dirty?

• Dr. George O'Malley : I ordered Chinese food...

  Dr. Meredith Grey : I HATE Chinese food!

• Dr. Meredith Grey : Fools on bikes killing themselves. Natural selection is what it is.