Cristina Yang quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Cristina

[about a bag of ashes] What are we looking at?

Izzie

Meredith put her Mom in a baggie and brought her to work.

Meredith

I had to get her out of my closet, she was haunting me.

Alex

And now she's haunting us all.

Callie

You should direct your questions to Dr. Bailey, Stevens.

Cristina

Oh, we're directing our questions to Dr. Bailey?

Callie

Oh, not you, just Stevens.

Bailey

Why is Stevens directing her questions to Dr. Bailey?

Callie

Because she's been sleeping with my husband. Alrighty then? Have a good day.

Cristina

[to Meredith] This is even more disturbing than your bag full of Mommy.

Izzie

I love George.

Meredith

Oh, God...

Izzie

I do, I love him, and I'm so happy because he's kind and, um, smart and um, sweet and sexy. He's perfect, perfect, except for the fact that he kisses like a chicken. You know a chicken pecking the ground for food, just pecking and pecking and pecking, and when he's pecking at me like that I forget that I love him, I forget that he's kind and and sweet and sexy and I just wanna scream, "Stop pecking me!" Did he peck you like a chicken, Mer?

Cristina

Morning.

Meredith

[Sees her] Cristina needs me.

Cristina

You did a good job today. That was not easy. What you did was not easy, it was brave.

Lexie

We killed him. The hospital, Sloan, us. We were not prepared.

Cristina

Yeah... yeah, that happens sometimes.

Lexie

That's... do you have any idea how backwards that is?

Cristina

We help more than we hurt.

Callie

Um, did anyone... did anyone ever think you two were a couple?

Meredith

No, because we screw boys like whores on tequila.

Cristina

And then we either try to marry them or drown ourselves.

Cristina

Mer, why do you care what I think?

Meredith

Because you're my person. And if I'm gonna do this with him - be whole and healthy and be a warm, gooey person who lives with a boy, I need you. I need you on board. I need you to cheer me on. Because you're the only one who... knows me, darkly, really knows me. I need you to pretend that I can do this, even if you don't believe. Because if you abandon me now, I will never make it, and I'll never get my happy ending, and then that's just––

Cristina

Life.

Meredith

I'm saying please here.

Cristina

I think you and Derek will make it. You'll make it work.

Meredith

I don't even want the credit, but the clinical trial was my idea. And I had to beg him to do it. More than once.

Izzie

It's okay you want the credit. I would want the credit.

Cristina

When you screw the attendings, you get screwed. They have all the power.

Lexie

Interns. You could screw interns. [everyone looks at her] I mean.... date. Residents could date interns, 'cause we're nonthreatening. I read this study once that said that interns hardly ever file sexual harassment claims because we feel so weak and powerless in the hospital environment, so that's good.

Alex

Interns. The other white meat.

Cristina

The wife's here, of the beating victim. She ID'd her husband, so she wanted to take-

Owen

What's his name? I wondered if you asked her her husband's name so that he would become a person to you. They're all people, Yang. This is not a game or a contest or a competition to see who gets surgeries and who doesn't. They're people and we get to save them. Now you're good. You're excellent and you can win all the contests. But if that's why you're doing this then you shouldn't be. Did you find out his name?

Cristina

[closes the door and sits down in front of Owen] My dad died when I was nine. In a car accident, I was with him in the car. While we waited for the ambulance, I tried to keep his chest closed, so he wouldn't bleed so much. When he died, my hands felt his heart stop beating. That's why I do this. It's also why I win all the contests. The patient's name is Tom. [leaves]

Cristina

[to Meredith] The wicked witch is dead.

Meredith

Metaphorically dead or dead dead?

Derek

Who are we talking about?

Hahn.

Cristina

Her name is off the surgical board. Her surgeries have been canceled. I don't know how or why, but I do know Hahn is gone.

Derek

That's too bad. She was really talented. [Meredith and Cristina glare at Derek] You're not talking to me. [gets out of bed and leaves]

Cristina

My gut? I'm not putting a patient's life in the hands of a novice surgeon based on my gut.

Owen

Well, it worked for me.

Cristina

Huh, I bet.

Owen

It's what told me to choose you.

Owen

Seems like you're short of a friend today, so I thought I'd fill in.

Cristina

Whatever. Colleagues aren't friends, they're competitors.

Meredith

[about Derek] And he just walked out. Without saying a word, he just walked out!

Cristina

Hunt won't even look at me, since he went all Apocalypse Now on me this morning.

Meredith

He had to get all scalpel happy up in that patients brain, and now he can't face it!

Cristina

He thinks I'm what? This wilting flower? Well guess what, I'm the strong one.

Meredith

Oh my god! I'm the strong one.

Cristina

You see, if I had that stomach cancer gene, I would get that gastrectomy no problem. I face things, I don't walk away.

Meredith

Derek walks away. Maybe walking away is the answer?

Cristina

See it's not emotional, it's science. You have a problem, don't ignore it.

Meredith

Well, sometimes if you have to pee and you ignore it, it does go away.

Izzie

[laughs] You guys are hilarious! I mean do you even know what she just said? Or what she just said? [Meredith and Cristina look at each other] I can totally see you guys in 50 years, at a nursing home, just talking at each other with your hearing aids off. [laughs] Hi-larious! Ah, I love lunch.

Cristina

Get a crash cart. Izzie Stevens's room. [Cristina checks her pulse. Izzie starts laughing] What?

Izzie

Oh my god, I'm sorry. You should see your face right now, it's your totally freaking out face.

Cristina

You're joking? This is a joke?

Izzie

I'm sorry. I really did need you though. Um, I have all these dresses here and I keep trying to page Meredith to come try them on and she won't answer the page. So, will you tell her to come in here. She'll listen to you.

Cristina

Nice work today? Seriously?

Owen

I'm sorry?

Cristina

'Run to my truck.' You've got O'Malley clipping bleeders and you're telling me to run to your truck.

Owen

You know what my truck looks like. O'Malley doesn't. And that- that run you took, it saved a guy's life.

Cristina

Yeah, well, all day... all day you were teaching O'Malley and you ignored me.

Owen

O'Malley wants to be a trauma surgeon. You've already declared cardio. I didn't do anything wrong today. I treated you like I would anyone else.

Cristina

No, not like anyone else. 'Take care now.' What is that? What are you, like, you know, happy now? What- what are you? You know, just a "choke 'em and forget 'em" kinda guy? [Owen hands her a card] "Hey there now. Take care now. Nice work, Yang." What is this?

Owen

It's my shrink. My shrink gave me these sentences. We, uh, we came up with them together. They're all 3-word sentences so I'd have something to say to you instead of the three words that are... that are killing me. The three words that you know I feel but I can't say them, because it would be cruel to say them because I am no good for you. I don't want to torture you. I don't want to look at you longingly when I know I can't be with you. So, yeah, I'm smiling and I'm saying 'take care now.' I'm letting you off the hook. I'm trying. I'm trying so hard to let you off the hook. I'm trying to make it right, what I did to you. Can't you see that? I'm just trying to make it right.

Cristina

Take care now.

Cristina

[excitedly] Big day. Biggest day of your life.

Meredith

Don't do that. Don't do the peppy maid of honor thing. It's creepy.

Cristina

[drops her facade] Really? Good. [looks at Meredith] Wait, is this, like the calm before the storm? Do you need me to drug you or shave off your eyebrows to numb you into submission?