Derek Shepherd quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Derek

Every kiss before the right kiss doesn't count anyway. I've kissed a lot of women. The first time I kissed my wife, well... I mean, she wasn't my wife then. She was just this girl in a bar. And when we kissed, it... it was like... I gotta tell you, it was like I never kissed any other woman before. It was like the first kiss. The right kiss.

Derek

Hey, it's me. I'm on the ferry. I just wanted to say that, um... God, I wish you could see this. Weather's classic Seattle. Oh, the water is so blue. It may be the most perfect ferryboat ride I've ever had in my life. We're gonna do this a lot more when I get home, by the way... you, me, and the family. We're just gonna take a day and... ride the ferryboat... all day if we want. I love you, Meredith. I know I just left, and I'm not even at the airport yet, but I just wanted to say... I love you. I love our family. And we're gonna keep doing this. I'll see you when I get home. I love you.

Meredith

Dr. Shepherd.

Derek

Dr. Shepherd? This morning it was Derek, now it's Dr. Shepherd.

Meredith

Dr. Shepherd, we should pretend it never happened.

Derek

What never happened? You sleeping with me last night? Or you throwing me out this morning? Because both are very fond memories I'd like to hold on to.

Meredith

No, there will be no memories. I'm not the girl in the bar anymore and you're not the guy. This can't exist. You get that, right?

Derek

You took advantage of me and now you want to forget about it?

Meredith

I did not take—

Derek

I was drunk, vulnerable and good looking and you took advantage.

Meredith

Okay, I was the one who was drunk and you are NOT that good looking.

Derek

Maybe not today, but last night I was very good looking. I had on my red shirt, my good looking shirt and you took advantage.

Meredith

I did not!

Derek

Would you like to take advantage again, say Friday night?

Meredith

No! You're an attending and I'm your intern! Stop looking at me like that.

Derek

Like what?

Meredith

Like you've seen me naked.

Derek

Miranda.

Bailey

Excuse me?

Derek

Well, that's your name right? It's on your jacket. Fine, I'll just call you Bailey then.

Bailey

You know, you think you're charming, in that talented, neurotic, overly moussed hair sort of way. Good for you. But if you think I'm gonna stand back and watch while you favor her...

Derek

I don't favor her. She's good.

Bailey

I'm sure she is.

Derek

You know, can I point out, that technically, I'm your boss.

Bailey

You don't scare me. Look, I'm not gonna advertise your extracurricular activities with my intern. However the next time I see you favoring Meredith Grey in any way, I'll make sure she doesn't see the inside of an OR for a month. Just for the sake of balance.

Derek

Let me explain.

George

It's fine!

Derek

No, there is a code among doctors. We're not supposed to ask each other questions. Not within the walls of this hospital.

George

OK, I was out of line.

Derek

No, you weren't. I was. I was out of line. Somebody should have taken responsibility. And it should have been the guy doing the cutting. It should have been me. You didn't deserve what happened to you today. You did the right thing, code or no code.

Meredith

It's just that I hardly know anything about you.

Derek

You know I'm from New York. You know I like ferry boats.

Meredith

Enough with the ferry boats. What about your friends?

Derek

I'm a surgeon. I don't have friends.

Meredith

Everybody has friends. I mean, who do you hang out with? What do you do on your days off? These are important questions.

Derek

Ah, important for who?

Meredith

We're having sex every night. I think I deserve details.

Derek

You have more details than most.

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".

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.

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.

Webber

Leave me alone. I've been sitting home for a week, watching Oprah give away things on TV. Oprah, Derek! You clear me now or I'll hurt you.

Derek

If you want me to clear you so soon maybe you should've thought of that before you gave chief to Burke and invited Satan to Seattle.

Webber

Satan?

Addison

Good morning. Richard, like the hat.

Derek

Satan speaks.

Addison

Actually I prefer to be called ruler of all that is evil. [Richard laughs] But I will answer to Satan.

Derek

Meredith kissed me. Addison kissed me. My wife and my girlfriend kissed me on the same day.

Bailey

Joe, do I look friendly to you?

Uh, you're a tiny little kitten of joy and love. [Bailey stares at him] What? He saved my life.

Bailey

His first mistake. McDreamy, go sit by someone who cares.

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?

Bailey

Turn around and walk away.

Derek

From what?

Bailey

From my intern.

Derek

No, I wasn't.

Bailey

Yes you were, come on, look, you can't do this, you don't have the right, not anymore.

Derek

I just want to find out if she's okay.

Bailey

She's not. She's a human traffic accident, and everybody's slowing down to look at the wreckage. She's doing the best she can with what she has left, and I know you can't see this 'cause you're in it, but YOU CAN'T HELP HER NOW! You'll only make it worse. Walk away. Leave her to mend.

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.