Meredith Grey quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Jackson

The Chief banged my mom.

Meredith

What? The... Owen?

Jackson

I mean Webber, Dr. Webber banged my mom.

Meredith

Oh... oh... Oh my god!

Jackson

Yeah, I know...

Meredith

Well, if it makes you feel any better: he banged my mom too.

Jackson

That makes me feel worse!

Alex

I didn't stay to nail the freshmen.

Meredith

I know. You stayed for Robbins.

Alex

Yeah, and you know what she told me? That I'm a nobody. That I have no one. She told me that I have nothing to show for my life. I want your house, Mer, 'cause... I don't know why. I just... I just do.

Meredith

The chips on the ceiling are from the first Christmas tree we got intern year. You wouldn't know that, because we didn't like you then. And the burn marks on the hardwoods are from flame shots from that stupid party Izzie threw. And the scratch marks on the doorjamb in the study are Zola's height marks since she could stand, and the ones on the other side are from me when I was little. I grew up there, Alex. It's hard for me to change things. And you grew up there, too. So before you go trying to change everything about yourself, you got yourself this far. And you're fine the way you are, and so is the house. So I'm not changing anything. You can, if you want, but I won't.

Derek

[walking into the house, sees Meredith] Oh, hi.

Meredith

Hi.

Derek

So... talked to Clemens, he'll refer the tumor patient to someone over at Seattle Pres.

Meredith

Great. Uh, take a look at the shirt I bought Zola. It... it's... it's in the bag on the counter.

Derek

Oh, Meredith. Guys don't get all goo-hoo over baby clothes.

Meredith

Just look!

Derek

What is this? [He stares at the t-shirt, surprised. Meredith gets up and he shows her the writing on the t-shirt, which says: 'World's best big sister]

Meredith

It's only 3 weeks, so I shouldn't even be telling you. I mean... I still have a hostile uterus and terrible things are constantly happening to us, which is why I haven't told anyone, I haven't even told Christina, so... if you tell anyone, I... I swear I will kick you out of this house that you built.

Derek

Don't worry. And good things happen to us. We're gonna have another baby!

Meredith

We are gonna have another baby!

You know we're family, right? There was no wedding, Meredith. You adopted a baby and you never invited us to come meet her. You never accepted our invitation to come see us. All we got was a couple of pictures via e-mail. You know, my kids were so excited that for months, they walked around telling every African-American person they saw that we have a brown baby in the family? A year later, they kind of think I made the whole thing up.

Meredith

I'm sorry. It's just, you know, with everything that's been going on––

No, I get that we're all busy, but you're not shy about asking me for a couple of body parts, and now you want me to cover your tracks with Derek?

Meredith

If you feel like it's inappropriate––

No, it's what sisters ask sisters to do. We cover each other's asses. Look, if you want to be a sister, I am delighted, but then act like one.

Meredith

My version of family isn't like your version. You guys give each other crap and then you laugh about it. You'd walk through fire for each other. Greys are not like that.

Shane

Dr. Shepherd?

Derek

Ross?

Shane

Sorry to bother you, sir, but I was hoping to scrub in with you today, and I'm supposed to be on Dr. Grey's service. So I was wondering - if maybe you could talk to your wife for me.

Meredith

[seethes] I'm gonna kill him. [flings open the door] No, Ross, he cannot talk to his wife for you, because you are with me, and we have a consult with a pregnant lady with abdominal pain. So go do the workup, and I will see you there. [slams the door]

Derek

[grins to himself] Ahhh...I am liking the stupid hormones.

Meredith

Do. Not. Say. Anything.

Shane

I am so so sorry.

Meredith

Wow. Is this you not saying anything?! Go away and do not come back without a liver.

Shane

Um, can I get you a tissue?

Meredith

GO!!!!!!!!

Meredith

Dr. Bailey. Can I please get another intern?

Bailey

What's wrong with Ross?

Meredith

A lot.

Bailey

The kid made a tiny mistake.

Meredith

Because he's an idiot. If I have to work with him one more second, I'm probably gonna kill him.

Bailey

Uh, you think I didn't want to kill you? You cut L-VAD wires, and yet there you stand. So be merciful and suck it up.

Arizona

Jackson Avery really has a bigger say than any of us in running this hospital?

Cristina

That can't be true. Can it?

Derek

Well, he's a voting member of the management team and he also represents the Harper Avery Foundation.

Callie

And their $175 million bucks.

Arizona

As opposed to our $15 million apiece.

Derek

According to Stan, not only does he have the deciding vote, he can veto ours.

Cristina

That is ridiculous. He's a fellow.

Meredith

So are you.

Cristina

But he's a plastics fellow. And I'm me.

Cristina

You know, it's like everyone has gone crazy. Owen and Derek are at each other's throats. Avery's on some kind of power trip. You know, I am supposed to be prepping for a major transplant and Callie's left me with an OR board that's like a Rubik's Cube.

Meredith

[deadpan] Wow. In charge one day, and already the hospital's spinning out of control?

Callie

Well, you should be staring at my wife. [points to Arizona]

Meredith

New haircut?

Callie

No. It's her leg. She's wearing high heels. Because she has a sexy high-heel leg that makes her ass go pow. [Arizona shakes her butt]

Cristina

[facetiously] Ooh wow.

Meredith

[giggles] Hey!

Derek

Wow.

Cristina

Baby got back.

Callie

[to Jackson, Derek and Richard, who are looking embarrassed] Come on, guys. You can comment, too. You have permission. It's the one time in your life you can say it and not be gross.

Webber

Well, I think it's a fine gluteal––

Arizona

[points at Richard] Oh, no.

Owen

When you and Derek adopted Zola, how did you know? I mean, how did you really know that that was something you were gonna do?

Meredith

Why? Are you thinking––

Owen

Yeah, forget it. Just forget it.

Meredith

You asked me about Zola today. We just knew. You know, Derek knew first, of course, because he's Derek, and it took me a little longer because I was scared. One day, I just picked her up, and I just knew. I don't know how else to explain it. I looked at her, and she was my daughter. I just knew.

Meredith

[about Richard] If he wants to suffer, then maybe we let him.

Bailey

Oh, so you're gonna let him die because he hurt your feelings?

Meredith

There isn't anything that he can say to me that I haven't heard from my mother a thousand times. I'm bulletproof. But we can force all the treatment on him we want. It won't make a difference if he decides he does not want to fight for himself. Maybe he just needs to see what it feels like to hit bottom.

Cristina

How's, uh Derek liking maternity leave?

Meredith

He's on paternity leave.

Cristina

Yeah, okay.

Meredith

We have a deal. I don't work. Neither does he. It's working out well.

Callie

I live in your house. You're bored out of your minds. [Cristina looks at her] Yeah, they've got all this pent-up surgical energy and now everything's a competition.

Bailey

You stole my liver?

Meredith

Uh come on. I deserve this. I've been on the bench for months.

Bailey

You deserve nothing.

Meredith

I named my son after you. [singsong] You can't be mad at me.

Bailey

Your son is the devil's spawn. He drinks the milk of a liver thief!

Meredith

I have a career and a family, and I'm going to do both. What I don't have time for is for you to tell me that I can't.

Cristina

I never said that.

Meredith

You know, I was always there for you, for whatever you needed, and now this is when I need you, and you're supposed to help me. And instead, last week you pushed me aside because I had a baby. You don't have time for me now? Because you don't have time for people who want things that you don't want.