Derek Shepherd quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Addison

Well, it is Christmas. Christmas, Derek, we love Christmas. At least we used to.

Derek

[pauses] Christmas makes you want to be with people you love. [pauses] I'm not saying this to hurt you, or because I want to leave you, because I don't. Meredith wasn't a fling. She wasn't revenge. I fell in love with her. That doesn't go away because I decided to stay with you.

Derek

[to Addison] There is a land called Passive Agressiva, and you are their queen.

Addison

I am fine.

Derek

Except when you're shrieking about trout.

Addison

I was not shrieking about trout.

Derek

You're right, you weren't. You were shrieking about Meredith.

Addison

No, I was shrieking about the trailer. I hate the trailer.

Derek

Oh, okay so the past three weeks have been about the trailer.

Addison

Yes.

Derek

Not about the fact that I said I love Meredith.

Addison

Loved.

Derek

What?

Addison

You said you loved her, past tense.

Derek

Right, yes, past tense.

Addison

Well, then I have been shrieking about the trailer.

Cristina

We're in an elevator. That's your specialty, right? McDreamy moments in elevators?

Derek

Dr. Yang...

Cristina

You know what? For just a moment, I'm not Dr. Yang and you're not Dr. Shepherd. You're the guy who screwed up my friend. The guy who drove her to get a dog she can't keep, the dog she only got because her boyfriend lied to her about his wife.

Derek

I never lied to her.

Cristina

You know, I know a liar when I see one because I'm a liar. You want me to lie to the patient? Fine, I'll lie.

Webber

We need an additional 40 nurses to relieve the overtime that they're striking about. That's 2 million dollars a year we don't have.

Derek

Have you checked under the couch? I always find spare change under the cushions.

Meredith

Hey.

Derek

Hey. You almost died today.

Meredith

Yeah, I almost died today. [Derek is at a loss for words and starts heading to the door] I can't, I can't remember our last kiss. All I could think about was I'm going to die today and I can't remember our last kiss. Which, is pathetic but the last time we were together and happy, I... want to be able to remember that, and I can't, Derek. I can't remember.

Derek

I'm glad you didn't die today. [Starts to leave but stops] It was a Thursday morning, you were wearing that ratty little 'Dartmouth' T-shirt you look so good in, the one with the hole at the back of the neck. You'd just washed you hair and you smelled like some kind of... flower. I was running late for surgery, you said you were going to see me later, and you lean to me, put you hand on my chest and you kissed me. Soft. It was quick. Kind of like a habit. You know, like we'd do it everyday for the rest of our lives. And you went back to reading the newspaper and I went to work. That was the last time we kissed. [Derek starts to leave]

Meredith

Lavender. My hair smelled like lavender... from my conditioner.

Derek

Lavender. Huh. [Smiles then leaves]

Webber

Punching out people on my surgical floor! My head of neurosurgery punching out people on my surgical floor!

Addison

Put the ice pack on your hand.

Derek

My hand is fine!

Webber

Put the damn ice on your two million dollar a year hand! Now, would someone tell me what the hell happened?

Addison

That was Mark.

Webber

Who's Mark?

Addison

He and Derek used to work together back in New York. And, um, they, we, were all close friends. Until Derek found us in bed together.

Webber

Did you put your weight behind it?

Derek

Yes sir.

Webber

Well, all right then.

Derek

Juju.

Addison

Yep.

Derek

You juju'ed Meredith.

Addison

I did, in the spirit of friendship.

Derek

Hmmm.

Addison

What, are we not being friends with Meredith anymore?

Derek

No, no, we are. Meredith and I are friends.

Addison

And you and I are married. So then by proxy, Meredith and I are friends.

Derek

That's very big of you.

Addison

Yeah.

Derek

You don't have to do that. It’s not like I'm going to be friends with... let's say... Mark.

Addison

Yeah, well, neither am I. Now finish your juju before somebody else dies.

Izzie

Make her seize? How do we make someone have a seizure?

Derek

Well do your research, get creative.

George

But if all the normal methods have failed then... what are we supposed to do?

Derek

Use a strobe-light, get her drunk, hang her from the ceiling upside down and hit her with a wiffle bat for all I care, okay? Just make her seize, because until she seizes I don't know what to operate. And if I don't know what to operate, I can't get this woman out of my life. And this woman is now how I like to start my mornings.

Meredith

I never should have told you about George.

Derek

No, it's fine. I'm glad I know about him. And the vet. You really get around.

Meredith

What did you just say to me?

Derek

It's unforgivable.

Meredith

I don't remember ever asking you to forgive me.

Derek

So was the knitting a phase? Who's next? Alex? Cause I hear he likes to sleep around. You two have that in common.

Meredith

You don't get to call me a whore. When I met you, I thought I had found the person that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done, so all the boys, and all the bars, and all the obvious daddy issues. Who cared, because I was done. You left me. You chose Addison. I'm all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke. You don't get to call me a whore.

Derek

This thing with us is finished. It's over.

Meredith

Finally.

Derek

Yeah. It's done.

Meredith

It is done.

Derek

What do you want from me, Addison?

Addison

I want you to care. I sleep with your best friend, and you walk away. He comes out here from New York and rubs it in your face, and still you get a good night's sleep. What do I have to do? Oh, I know. Maybe what I should do is go out on a date with the vet because that seems to be something that sends you into a blind rage. Oh but wait, that won't work either because I'm not Meredith Grey!

Meredith

Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive.

George

Family...

Cristina

Love...

Izzie

Sex.

Derek

But we only need one thing...

Burke

To actually be alive.

Cristina

We need a beating heart.

Addison

When our heart is threatened...

Alex

We respond in one of two ways.

George

We either run...

Derek

Or...

Izzie

We attack.

Webber

There's a scientific term for this:

Alex

Fight...

Addison

Or flight.

Bailey

It's instinct...

Meredith

We can't control it.

Izzie

Or can we?

Cristina

Benjamin O'Leary, 32, in for the removal of a brain tumor that's pressing on his frontal temporal lobe. Clearly it's affecting his impulse control.

It makes me say everything I think. Which apparently is annoying. This doctor looks annoyed anyway. Although it's hard to tell cause she always has kind of a pinched uptight look on her face. Am I annoying you?

Cristina

It's fine.

You can't say it's fine. He doesn't perceive sarcasm or irony. If he's annoying you, you have to tell him.

Maybe I'm not annoying her Ruthie.

Cristina

No, you are.

Bailey

Doctor Yang!

Cristina

He asked!

Derek

Okay Benjamin, Doctor Yang, pinched and annoyed though she may be, is going to prep you for surgery today. Do you have any questions for me?

[about Meredith] Is that blonde your girlfriend? 'Cause the way you keep looking at her, you might as well just mount her right here and now. [Derek and the interns are trying not to laugh.] I'm sorry was I rude?

Meredith

Enough! This is NOT dating. I want moonlight, and flowers, and candy and people trying to feel me up. Nobody is trying to feel me up. Nobody is even looking at me. I'm an intern, do the two of you have any idea how much effort it takes to do all this? I am waxed and plucked and I have a clean top on. And the two of you are looking at each other.

Derek

Meredith...

Meredith

No, my fantasy is not two men looking at each other.

We didn't...

Meredith

No talking until one of you figures out how to put on a date. I want heat! I want romance! Damn it, I want to feel like a freaking lady!

Mark

She told you. [Derek ignores him] I've known you my whole life, I grew up with you so I know what you're thinking. That there is a year of your life wasted. Trying to make it work with Addison and you could have been with Meredith. That you could be happy right now. That all this, everything. That you and Meredith could have had a real chance. Still, I thought you should know the truth. Thought I owed you that, as a friend.

Derek

You're not my friend.

Derek

It'd be nice if every love triangle could be fixed with a scalpel.

Mark

If they could, you'd have stabbed me with a ten blade a long time ago.