Cristina Yang quotes from Grey&#039;s Anatomy

Really? I guess I just think I believe in Karma. You know I mean good people deserve good things. At least that's how I thought the universe worked.

Cristina

How can you think that and practice medicine?

Why... I'm not saying that everybody who gets sick or everybody who dies is bad. I'm just saying that, uh, I think that there's a balance. Or there should be balance! I should...there should be some sort of balance. That's...

Burke

Good god, O'Malley, what the hell did Grey do to you?

S2 E19 What Have I Done To Deserve This?

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All right. So you slept with O'Malley. Get over it already.

He told you?

Uh, no. [Laughs] I was just kidding! I means it's not like I should be surprised.

Why not?

Because when your life is sucky, you get drunk and sleep with inappropriate men. It's your thing. Whatever. I find it charming.

You sleep with inappropriate women when you're sober.

One inappropriate woman. And Izzie forgave me for that. O'Malley is not going to get over this.

Izzie hasn't forgiven you!

Yes, she has. We're together.

No you're not. Izzie may be sleeping with you, but she'll never see you the way she saw you before you slept with Olivia.

Why are you trying to piss me off?

You're trying to suggest that it's forgivable for you to sleep with Olivia, but not forgivable for me to sleep with George.

[George walks in]

You told him?!

George!

Wow, when I'm wrong about someone.

No, I...

I am REALLY wrong!

No, George! It's not... it's not what you think!

Dude! Chill!

You chill! You chill! I'm not... I'm not going to chill.

George, I...

What's going on?

The fetus is freaking out.

I can see that! Why are freaking out?

You think someone is your friend. [Cristina walks in] You know? And you think at the very least you'd respect my privacy!

Cristina

What's going on?

Baby boy is freaking out.

She can see that.

Cristina

I can see that.

CICristina and Izzie

Why is he freaking out?

George, can we at least talk?

I don't want to talk! Not to you! I wanted to keep my mouth shut. And if you hadn't been running away from me every time you see me, you would know that!

Okay, you're right, but can we just talk now?

You want to talk now, because you told everyone that we had sex!

You had sex?

Cristina

You had sex with George?

You didn't tell them?

No.

DAMMIT! [trips and falls down stairwell]

S2 E19 What Have I Done To Deserve This?

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Cristina

Great. No blood, no guts, no lives to save. It's dead quiet.

Uh, did you really just say that?

Cristina!

Cristina

What?

You said the "q" word.

That's like saying Macbeth in the theatre.

Cristina

Please. You think because someone says its quiet that'll mean---

[All hell breaks loose] [...]

Cristina

Can anyone spell coincidence?

S2 E21 Superstition

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Cristina

People! What's with all the evil misery? Huh? Live, and let live.

You're cheerful.

Cristina

Oh.

You are. How is that possible?

Cristina

I scrubbed in on a four hour paraesophageal last night, then I got laid. And now three ambulances are coming in full of bloody, broken car crash victims, all who need to be cut open. So I'm cheery, I'm cheery, I am so cheery! I'm cheery! I'm cheerful!

S2 E24 Damage Case

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[voiceover]

Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive.

Family...

Cristina

Love...

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...

S2 E26 Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response/Losing My Religion

We respond in one of two ways.

We either run...

Or...

We attack.

There's a scientific term for this:

Fight...

Or flight.

It's instinct...

We can't control it.

Or can we?

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[one on one meeting with Cristina] I know your type. You're a surgical junkie.

Cristina

Yes, sir.

I'm just saying, it's not going to be easy for you to be away from the OR that long.

Cristina

No, sir.

And if you want to get back to the OR, you're gonna tell me what I need to know, aren't you?

Cristina

You're right, it's not easy for me to be away from the OR. And it's not easy for me to sit in front of you, or any other authority figure for that matter, and not be able to give you the exact answer you want to hear. I'm the one with the answers. I've always been the one with the answers. But right now sir, I don't have any.

Dr. Yang.

Cristina

How do you keep your edge sir? Because I've watch you and you've been doing this a long time and you're clean, you're focused, you are the job, nothing gets to you. And the thing is sir, I was like that, until I got here. Until I actually started doing this job and now everything is, is fuzzy...

That's beside the point.

Cristina

No see sir, this is the point. Because I can't tell you what happened in that room, I can't tell you. And before I could have, no guilt, no loyalties, no problem. Before, before I wouldn't have even been in that room. I wouldn't have gotten involved. I would have never frozen in surgery. And I would have told him what I thought he should do. I had an edge, sir. I had an edge and I've lost it, and I need it. I need it back. [tearing up] So, if you could just tell me, how you keep yours and how not to be affected, I know I could be a great surgeon. So if you could just give me the answers, I would really appreciate it.

You're excused Dr. Yang.

Cristina

But...

You're excused.

Cristina

I'll tell you, I'll tell you who cut the LVAD wires, sir, if you'll please...

S2 E26 Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response/Losing My Religion

No you won't, I don't want to know. Not from you. Yeah, I have the answers, but I can't tell them to you. I'm not going to be responsible for you becoming less human.

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What happened?

OOlivia

I didn't know what to do. I didn't think you guys would want me to go to the chief, but...

Cristina

Where is she?

OOlivia

She's in there with him.

[They walk in to see Izzie lying in bed with Denny]

Cristina

Izzie...

I think it was a stroke. He was prone to blood clots. A clot could have formed on his sutures, traveled to his brain, it only takes a second.

Izz...

Dr. Hahn did a beautiful job on the surgery. But I don't know why I didn't think of blood clots. He died all alone. He was alone.

There is nothing you could have done.

I changed my dress three times. I wanted to look nice. I would have been here sooner. But I couldn't figure out which dress to wear.

Izzie, we shouldn't be in here.

Izz, there are things that they need, they need to move him.

Take him to the morgue.

Cristina

You can't stay here, I know you want to...

Can you please, please, just get out? I want to be alone with Denny.

Izzie, that's not Denny.

Shut up.

Izz, it's not Denny. The minute his heart stopped beating he stopped being Denny. Now I know you love him, but he also loved you. And a guy that loves you like that, he doesn't want you to do this to yourself. Because it's not Denny, not anymore.

S2 E26 Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response/Losing My Religion

An hour ago he was proposing. And now... and now he's going to the morgue. Isn't that ridiculous? Isn't it the most ridiculous piece of crap you've ever...

[Izzie starts sobbing. Alex picks her up, cradling her and sits down on a chair holding and rocking her while she sobs]

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[pause, glances around] Why are you all looking at me?

Cristina

Well, this is familiar territory for you.

There is nothing familiar abut this! Unfamiliar! Denny died. The man she loves, died.

Cristina

Yeah, but you're all dark and twisty inside.

Dark and twisty?

Cristina

What, with the Alzheimers thing and the father you don't talk to.

And the tequila thing and the inappropriate men thing.

You are dark and twisty inside, Meredith, and now Izzie is dark and twisty inside.

So all of a sudden I'm the president of people with crappy lives?

S3 E1 Time Has Come Today

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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.

BBenjamin

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.

RRuthie

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

BBenjamin

Maybe I'm not annoying her Ruthie.

Cristina

No, you are.

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?

BBenjamin

[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?

S3 E2 I am a Tree

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Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd is out sick, you can cover the pit, or you can... you can tell me whose damn panties are on the bulletin board! [everybody in the background starts snickering]

Cristina

[whispers to Meredith] Is it yours?

This is a hospital. People, serious work happens here. We save lives! [interns laugh] Oh, something funny? Whose're these?

This is bad. This isn't good.

Cristina

You better claim them. She thinks they're mine!

Claim them? No.