Meredith Grey quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Derek

[after Meredith bombards him with questions] Lighten up. It'd be good for your blood pressure.

Meredith

Oh, don't you tell me to lighten up. I'll lighten up when I....feel light.

Derek

I'm going to cut here from the base of the neck to the rib cage. I want you to hit the bleeders.

Meredith

I still don't think we should be doing this.

Derek

This guy has a spinal hematoma.

Meredith

We don't know that.

Derek

Which left untreated are almost always fatal.

Meredith

You're cutting blind. Whatever happened to being practical?

Derek

I need to see more here. Retractor. [uses retractor to expose the spinal column]

Meredith

Wow. The spine.

Derek

There's no wow in "practical".

Izzie

[After George comes out of the bathroom] There's no reason to be ashamed. It's normal, healthy even.

George

I'm not ashamed. 'Cause I wasn't doing anything. I don't have to. I have a girlfriend.

Izzie

An imaginary girlfriend?

George

An actual girlfriend.

Izzie

You know what? It's no big deal, you don't have to lie. I get it. You have needs.

Meredith

What is going on out here?

George

Nothing.

Izzie

[to Meredith] Nothing. He's freaked out because I caught him playing with little Jimmy and the twins.

George

[he turns around] I have a girlfriend.

Izzie

OK.

Derek

[he sees Addison] Meredith, I am so sorry. [Addison walks over] Addison. What are you doing here?

Addison

Well you'd know if you'd bothered to return any one of my phone calls. [she turns to Meredith] Hi. I'm Addison Shepherd.

Meredith

Shepherd?

Addison

And you must be the woman who's been screwing my husband.

Meredith

Let's play a game of whose life sucks the most. I'll win. I always win.

Cristina

You don't want to play with me.

Meredith

Oh, I do. I'll even go first. Derek's married. [George spits out his beer]

Cristina

George. Beer is dripping from your nostrils.

Meredith

Told you I'd win.

Cristina

No, you didn't win.

Meredith

Did you hear me? I said Derek is married, as in pig-headed, adulterous, liar married. Nothing you could say could top that.

Cristina

I'm pregnant. I win. [Joe, the bartender, collapses] Okay, maybe Joe wins.

Derek

So I go upstairs, as I'm walking down the hall I'm trying to prepare myself for what I'm going to see when I go into my bedroom. I step on a man's jacket that doesn't belong to me. And everything I think I know just shifts. Because the jacket that doesn't belong to me is a jacket that I recognize, what I know now is that when I go into my bedroom, I'm not just going to see that my wife is cheating on me. I'm going to see that my wife is cheating on me with Mark, who happened to be my best friend. It's just so pedestrian, common and dirty, and cruel. Mostly just cruel. I left, came out here.

Meredith

Then you met me.

Derek

And I met you.

Meredith

What was I to you? The girl you screwed to get over being screwed?

Derek

You were like coming up for fresh air. It's like I was drowning and you saved me. That's all I know.

Meredith

It's not enough.

Cristina

The clinic has a policy. They wouldn't let me confirm my appointment unless I designated an emergency contact person. Someone to be there just in case and... to know help me home, you know, after. Anyway I put your name down, that's why I told you I'm pregnant. You're my person.

Meredith

I am?

Cristina

Yeah, you are. Whatever.

Meredith

Whatever.

Cristina

He dumped me. [Meredith hugs Cristina] You realize this constitutes hugging?

Meredith

Shut up, I'm your person.

Meredith

It's not us. It's them. Them and their stupid boy... penises. They didn't tell me they have a wife. They gave absolutely no warning that they were going to break up with you.

Cristina

It's not that Burke broke up with me. It's how he broke up with me. Like it was business. Like it was a business trans- Like he's a boss of me!

Meredith

He is the boss of you.

Cristina

What's worse is that I care.

Meredith

Ugh I'm going to throw up again. [Gets up and kneels over the toilet] No. Wait. False alarm.

Cristina

The problem is estrogen.

Meredith

No, the problem is tequila.

Cristina

You know I used to be all business and then he goes and gets me pregnant.

Meredith

With his stupid boy penis.

Cristina

Now I'm having hormone surges. He ruined me. I'm ruined! He turned me into this... fat, stupid, pregnant girl. Who cares! Estrogen!

Meredith

Penises. Penises, Izzie.

Cristina

Estrogen, George.

Meredith

[brushing off Derek] I'm a sink with an open drain. Anything you say runs right out! There is no enough! [Storms off]

George

She probably could have picked a better metaphor.

Izzie

Give her a break, she's got a hangover.

Alex

You could talk, you know, I mean, if you need to.

Meredith

I'm fine.

Alex

You said that word so many times today, it doesn't even sound like a word anymore. Just saying you can talk to me. Because, you know, even if I repeat every word you say, no one around here likes me, they'll just call me a liar and move on.

Addison

Well isn't this cozy. Can I join in or are you not in to threesomes?

Meredith

I have to go.

Derek

Meredith... [To Addison] You really are Satan, you realise that right? If Satan were to take physical form he'd be you, everywhere ... all the time.

Addison

I'm so not Satan.

Derek

How come you haven't gotten on your broomstick and gone back to New York where you belong?

Addison

Stop being petty.

Derek

Stop being an adulterous bitch.

Addison

You know you are going to forgive me eventually, right? I mean you can't just... I mean there was a time when you thought of me as your best friend—

Derek

There was a time where I thought you were the love of my life. Things change.

Addison

Derek, have you ever thought that even if I am Satan and an adulterous bitch that I still might be the love of your life?

Cristina

That does not look comfortable.

Meredith

Trust me, it's not.

Meredith

I feel like one of those people who's freaking miserable they can't be around normal people. Like I'll infect the happy people. Like I'm some miserable, diseased, dirty ex-mistress. Your turn.

Alex

I failed the medical boards, if I tell Izzie she'll be nice about it all, supportive and optimistic. She might as well rip my nads off and turn them into earrings.

Meredith

Alex, you should go to Thanksgiving. I mean don't tell her, if you don't want to. But you should go. Otherwise you're just... me.

Alex

A miserable, diseased, dirty ex-mistress. [Wolf whistle] Hot. That's really hot. I feel better already.

Meredith? You work here?

Meredith

What are you doing here, Steve?

I'm having a little problem.

Cristina

Steve, Steve?

Actually, I'm having a big problem.

Meredith

What?

Cristina

[Still staring] Steve, hi! Cristina.

Ever since you and I [Meredith follows Cristina's gaze and does a double-take]it won't go away.

Meredith

Cristina!

Cristina

What? It's right there, looking at me! There are so many things I could say right now — Champ!

Meredith

So, you're giving up the trailer?

Derek

I'm not giving up the trailer. Is Addison telling people that I'm giving up the trailer?

Meredith

It's just funny, I just never would have pegged you for that guy.

Derek

What guy?

Meredith

You know, the marble bath, private pool, gated community guy.

Derek

Don't peg me. I'm not peggable.

Meredith

You're pegged. Deal with it.