Meredith Grey quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Meredith

I made a promise to Cristina that I wouldn't let you go dark and twisty, that I'd be your person if you needed one.

Owen

I don't want to talk.

Meredith

Okay. You don't have to. But just tell me... Do we hate him?

Owen

We hate him.

Meredith

Okay, then we hate him.

Nathan

Dr. Grey, right?

Meredith

Yep.

Nathan

Yours is easy to remember. It's on all the hospital stationery... What's the story there?

Meredith

That's too long a story to tell.

Nathan

I was actually headed across the street. I was gonna grab a drink or something, are you headed that way, or...? [Meredith is thinking]

Meredith

I'm a friend of Owen Hunt's [Elevator bell dings, and Meredith gets off]

Nathan

I see.

Meredith

So, no.

Amelia

Why are you shutting me out of this?

Meredith

Because this does not concern you.

Amelia

But it concerns you?

Meredith

No, it doesn't. I made a promise that I would help him keep his head above water.

Amelia

Promised who?

Meredith

To Cristina. So I am watching him, and I am letting him be, and I am not sticking my nose...

Amelia

What does Cristina have to do with this? You're in some sort of three-way trust circle with Owen and his ex-girlfriend?

Meredith

Ex-wife.

Amelia

God. Meredith, you are the most loyal person I have ever met to everyone except me. You're loyal to some woman halfway across the world...

Meredith

Yes, I am.

Amelia

...when I am right here. Cristina left you. I'm here. I'm your sister.

Meredith

You are not my sister. Cristina is my sister. You are Derek's sister, and Derek is gone.

Dr. Grey, I changed the mediastinal drains...

Amelia

(to Penny, screaming) Get out! (to Meredith) Is this why you hate me? 'Cause I remind you of him? Does it help you to hate me? Asking you not to push me. Am I like her... something you cling to to keep the memory alive? You are such a child. You wrap her around you like some sick widow shawl. The widow Grey. She's okay. She's moving on. She'll never love again, but she's holding it together. That is crap. You've given up. You are crawling into your little hole and dying. You are hollow. And Derek would be sick about it if he could see it. He would be disgusted.

Meredith

I want you out of my house.

Amelia

Done!

Amelia

That's my 30 day chip. I'm sober and I'm starting back at work on Monday, so I'm trying. I'm trying.

Meredith

I know you are.

Amelia

You can talk! That's great. They took the wires off?

Meredith

Yeah, this morning. I'm just not ready to forgive you yet.

Amelia

I'm not exactly ready either. I'll see you later.

Meredith

See you later.

Meredith

I want to go to bed.

Alex

Oh, I do, too, and I can't go home.

Callie

I don't want to go home, alone. I miss Penny. I miss having sex. Ugh. Penny and I had the greatest sex. It was that "journey of discovery" great sex you have in the beginning.

Alex

Jo and I had sex like that all the time.

Callie

And now no Penny, no sex. No sex with Penny. None of it.

Meredith

Okay, let's not talk about sex, because the Chief is here.

Bailey

I'm just eating my pizza. Besides, it sounds like none of y'all are getting any anyway.

Alex

Pierce is getting some.

Maggie

No, I'm not. Don't say that. Forget he said that.

Meredith

Hey, Katie Bryce is back.

Bailey

Katie who?

Meredith

Katie Bryce. Day one of my internship, mystery seizures. Cristina and I solved it, Derek operated. It was my first surgery, Bailey. How do you not remember this?

Bailey

You were an intern, Grey. You weren't even a person to me yet... (she looks Katie) Oh, Katie Bryce! When Derek had all the interns chasing their tail for the answer...

Meredith

Yes!

Bailey

...and he was chasing your tail?

Meredith

Yes...

Meredith

You're just not Blake, and so let's prep for the EGD and page me when we're ready.

Jo

No. I'm not Blake. I'm Wilson. Jo Wilson. Dr. Josephine Alice Wilson. I'm a surgeon. I'm a human being. I'm not some stupid lump that you can just kick around or talk down to or talk down about or dismiss and discount. I get it. You don't like me, but I'm here. I'm in Alex's life, and I'm staying. And you have to start respecting that.

Meredith

I don't know where you're getting this.

Jo

I'm trying to move forward, okay? And I can't because you're always around the corner blocking my way, making everything so damn hard.

Meredith

You are overreacting.

Jo

No, I'm not. That's exactly what I'm talking about. I'm done. I'm done with all of it. You know, call your damn Army guy back and get your own boyfriend.

Alex

It's hard first time out after somebody important. First girl after Izzie left? It was pretty messy. You feel like you belong to somebody else, like you're cheating, you know? I mean, you're not, but man, sure feels that way. I never had a wife die, but... I've had a few "first time afters", Mer. There's always something after, eventually. We lose people and then we find new ones. It's how it works.

Meredith

I guess.

Alex

Oh, I know. Look, if you're not into him, who cares? But if you are, it's okay.

You're not ready.

Meredith

I guess I'm not. I want to be.

Okay, then. I'll back off. For a little while. But so you're prepared, I'm gonna call you again. And if you ignore me, I'm gonna show up again and we'll go back to sitting in that car, talking and laughing. And I'll be waiting until you're ready because I'm pretty sure you're worth waiting for.

Maggie

Oh, my God, I was promised sisters. I just got you guys back in the same house. I've never had sisters. It's nice. But it's going to implode. You know it, and I know it. So have at it. Go to town over the cabinets. If you're gonna kill each other, just do it already. I can't keep this family together by myself.

Meredith

Nobody asked you to. We're adults. We're going to fight.

Amelia

A lot. I'm annoying.

Meredith

She is. But I don't plan on kicking her out anytime soon. So, are you good?

Amelia

I'm not homeless. I'm good.

Meredith

Good.

Amelia

Though Maggie is starting to get on my nerves.

Meredith

Agreed. Well, you wanted sisters. You got 'em.

Maggie

I'm not a cat lady just because I stopped having se...

Amelia

Read the room.

Maggie

S-E-X with DeLuca.

Zola

Hey, Mommy.

Meredith

Yes?

Zola

Why did Aunt Maggie stop having S-E-X with DeLuca?

Meredith

Because he couldn't handle that she was his B-O-S-S. Do not ever date a man who can't handle your P-O-W-E-R.

Meredith

I tell my children, "When you're finished with yours toys, put them away."

Webber

Good morning.

Meredith

My kids don't need to see your penis, so the same goes for you.

Owen

Meredith, please.

Webber

There was a time where I would have asked, but I've learned.

Callie drops Sofia off at your place sometimes when she has to work or when she has plans or when she needs a night off. Correct?

Meredith

A "night off"? Being a mom isn't a job. We don't punch in and punch out. There are no nights off. We are both single parents. That's not a dirty word. But we do need help getting our kids to where they need to be with all of their limbs intact. So we lean on each other. That's not a sign of weakness or bad parenting, if that's where you're going with this. It takes a village, and we have a village.

Here in Seattle.

Meredith

What?

The village you just mentioned, the seamless support system these mothers built, this essential network. It's all here in Seattle. Sofia's friends and her school, her teachers. Her home is here in Seattle. That's what Sofia would be leaving.

Alex

Just because you choose to be unhappy, doesn't mean everybody else has to.

Meredith

Not true. Not always a choice.

Alex

You have chances, you know. You're hot, you're smart, you're funny. Maybe Thorpe didn't work out, but that doesn't mean you have to stop trying. And it sure as hell doesn't mean you get to crap on everyone else. And yeah, I'm gonna have a big wedding and you're gonna be there 'cause you're gonna be my best man. Deal with it!

Meredith

I'm busy. I'm working, too. I'm not trying to be mean. I just... I don't want you to get too attached. I have three children, a big job.

Nathan

Okay, you jumped me. Okay, not that I minded. It was good. We had a good time. It was very good. I don't know about you, but that was some of my best work. And in a car, which is not easy. But now what? Now you think, what, you're my sun and my moon, that all of a sudden I think that the stars shine down on only you, that you touched me and the heavens opened and I'm blinded by the angel that is you? I mean, you're good, but nobody's that good.

Meredith

I did jump you, didn't I?

Nathan

Yeah. You did.

Meredith

Okay, well, point taken. You are not after me.

Nathan

I'm not after you. We are friends who maybe have sex.

Meredith

We're friends who had sex once.

Nathan

Uh, we are friends that had sex four times in one night, but let's not get picky.