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Cristina Yang quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Played by Sandra Oh · 123 quotes · page 6 of 9

Cristina Yang

Played by Sandra Oh

Grey's Anatomy · 1,393 quotes

3rd most-quoted character in Grey's Anatomy: in 123 of its 1,393 quotes
Most scenes with: Meredith Grey (60), Alex Karev (22), Izzie Stevens (21)

Scenes with Cristina Yang 110

If Derek cuts the tumor out I could lose my memory, and if he doesn't I can die. I don't know what to do. Alex, tell me what to do.

Iz, I can't tell you what to do.

Of course you can, you're my husband. That's what husbands do, they stomp around telling their wives what to do. It's your job.

My job is to support whatever you wanna do.

I don't know what I wanna do. That's why I'm asking you. OK, I have an idea. Let's put it to a vote. All in favor of the surgery.

No. We're not voting. No ones... no ones voting.

Opposed?

Cristina

I'm opposed... to voting.

Just decide for me. Please?

You don't have to know right now. Think about it.

I don't have time.

Cristina

She just had brain surgery, and an incredibly aggressive course of IL2. She needs rest.

She needs to exercise whatever memory she's got left before it all turns to mush.

Cristina

Well she's not going to heal with you barking orders at her like a caveman.

Butt out Yang.

Cristina

You know what she's my patient. I don't care if you’re her husband.

Look, she...

Cristina

You wanna see how fast I can get your visiting hours down to zero?

She signed a DNR. She signed a fricking DNR and made me promise me she'd come out of this with a life, not in a hospital bed, not with no brain. I had to promise she'd have a life. You wanna know what happens if she can't make any new memories? Forget about being a doctor. She's going to need round the clock baby sitters. We get an apartment together, she can't ever find her way to the damn toilet, track her on her ankle in case god forbids, she wanders out the front door!

Cristina

Alex, you can handle this, she will get better.

Maybe, maybe not. It's on me. Her future is on me.

How's she doing? Any better?

Cristina

No.

Damn. Well, I'm going to city hall to go do the thing.

Cristina

Seriously? It doesn't seem like the day for it.

Look at Alex. He's in there working so hard all day, and she doesn't know. And, if she stays like this she may never know how much he loves her. And that girl Amanda, she's in there loving a stranger. She thinks that's her Prince Charming. I mean, he's probably gonna die today. Chances are. So yeah, I'm gonna go get married, because I think it's important to take the time to tell the people you love how much you love them while they can hear you. I love you Cristina Yang. [smiles]

Cristina

You have changed.

Mmmm... Maybe I have. What?

Cristina

I'm gonna hug you.

He wrote in my hand

LBLexie, Bailey, Hunt, Cristina, Shepherd, Sloan, Callie, Webber

What do you mean he wrote in your hand?

He just grabbed my hand, and he squeezed it and he wrote with his finger.

He wrote with his finger?

You know in my hand, he wrote 007.

[grabs Meredith's hand and proceeds to write on it using her finger] Okay, what did I write?

Joe?

N! I did not write JOE!

Cristina

Are you serious!

You mean this might not be O'Malley?

This is funny.

Did anybody try to phone O'Malleyf? Can we get him on the phone?

[Everybody retrieves their cell phones and start calling]

I'm telling you he squeezed my hand.

[hushes Meredith] Shut it! You don't get to talk anymore! You don't get to talk ever again!

I could have sworn it was George.

[voiceover] Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone.

It isn't just death we have to grieve. It's life. It's loss. It's change.

And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime.

That's how you stay alive. When it hurts so much you can't breathe, that's how you survive.

By remembering that one day, somehow, impossibly, you won't feel this way. It won't hurt this much.

Grief comes in its own time for everyone, in its own way.

So the best we can do, the best anyone can do, is try for honesty.

The really crappy thing, the very worst part of grief is that you can't control it.

The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes.

And let it go when we can.

The very worst part is that the minute you think you're past it, it starts all over again.

Cristina

And always, every time, it takes your breath away.

There are five stages of grief. They look different on all of us, but there are always five.

Denial.

Anger.

Bargaining.

Depression.

Acceptance.

You know, it's not a good idea to piss off your attending.

Cristina

Oh, I don't know he was upset, I'll apologize.

I wasn't talking about him.

Cristina

Sorry?

I like kids, and I like their parents, and I like to see them smile. So I like going to get them pudding and playing games with them. Because it makes attaching their arms way more fun. I don't like being used. And I like being lied to even less.

Are the Mercy West people that bad?

Cristina

They're everywhere and there are more of them than us, and they're kicking our asses. God, I miss Izzie. We need more 'uses', so get back here.

I have to be discharged first. You want to forge Bailey's signature?

Cristina

No, that'll get me fired. Ooh, ask one of the new ones to do it. Get them fired.

How did Kelsey do?

Cristina

Er, well.

Who's Kelsey?

Er, girl with no heart. I had to do a laparoscopic bowel repair while the poor thing was awake on the table.

WWilliam

Miranda, mind your manners. Even if surgery is your whole life it doesn't mean you have to talk about bowels at the dinner table.

My child is healthy.

WWilliam

Excuse me?

He may not be with me tonight, but he's healthy...

WWilliam

I didn't say he-

He's a well loved boy, and he's a happy boy. And staying in an unhappy marriage...

WWilliam

Now is not the time or the place-

And staying in an unhappy marriage, a marriage that I've outgrown, a marriage full of ultimatums, and numbness and resentment...

WWilliam

Miranda-

That is not the kind of life I want to model for my child. That is not what I want him to believe married love is. And I know what's possible, I know what's out there for me because you taught me well. You and mom showed me what true love looks like, so I chose not to settle, and I'm happier for it. Even if I'm alone at Christmas. My child is healthy, and I'm happy. --You know, part of my happiness is the fact that I got to repair a woman's bowel and save her life today. And that's God's work, which makes this an appropriate Christmas dinner conversation. --I'm happy, and my child is healthy, and that's enough for me today, Dad. That's enough.

Cristina

Where have you been? You just disappeared. I left you, like, ten messages. Are you drunk? [Owen grabs her and kisses her, she pulls away] Wait, what? What? What?

You make me sad. You think that surgery is going to make you feel... you think that a successful career is gonna make you happy. You think you know things; you know things and nothing else matters. No one else matters. People do matter. I matter. We... we matter. So you don't get to toss me aside. I won't let you.

Today sucks. Mark sucks.

Yang got burns on her girl parts.

Oh, wow.

Cristina

I do not... They're not on my girl parts.

Then they're on her ass. Look how she's walkin'.

Cristina

Don't you two have patients?

How did you get burns on your ass?

[walks up] You paged?

Cristina

Mer! Thank god. Come, the rest of you, bye. [pulls her over to a bed, she closes the curtain]

Oh my god!

Cristina

Not so loud!

How did you...? What...? You have grate marks burned into your ass.

Cristina

Yeah, vent marks. But same difference. [whispering] I was busy having sex. Will you please just dress the wound. Owen's being very caveman-like. It's hot, vaguely disturbing, but mostly hot. I- I think he might still be a little upset that I offered him to Teddy.

[Alex and Lexie pull back the curtain]

MCMeredith & Cristina

Alex!

Hot cross buns.

Ooh, that's gonna blister.

Is this a sex injury?

Cristina

Oh my God.

It is. I used to have sex injuries with Mark. Mark was really awesome at leaving you with good sex injuries. [starts sobbing]

Cristina

Please don't cry on my ass.

Single most important step in the exam process. Anyone?

Physical exam.

No. No chocolate for you.

Cristina

Lab and radiology evaluation.

Oh! Come on, people now you're embarrassing me.

Patient history.

Thank you! [throws a chocolate to her] Catch.

Mark's trying to kill Alex.

Cristina

What?

Well, I think I mentioned sleeping with Alex was a bad idea.

No, it's not a bad idea. It's happy and easy. You know much mental energy Mark took up? You know, I am telling you, ending it is the best thing that could have happened to me. And for him! Do you know how much happier he'd be if he could just move on?

Looked to me like he was trying to pick up Teddy.

Sure, he'll sleep with her. He slept with Addison. He'll screw anything that moves, but what, I'm supposed to check into a convent? Why is he hanging on like this?

Cristina

[sarcastic] You're just that good, Little Grey. There's no getting over you.

Oh! [walks off, Cristina laughs]

You clear the room every time. You clear the room.

Do you wanna talk about it?

Cristina

No.

Owen I mean.

Cristina

I know what you mean. I don't want to... I can't... It's just... He doesn't know, who he loves and if it's not me then... I don't want to talk about it. Let's talk about something else.

Okay. You realize you're about to be a godmother.

Cristina

I'm godmother? Okay, what do I have to do? Talk god to the fetus? 'Cause I’m not gonna do that.

It means, you take care of the kid if I die.

Cristina

Derek takes care of the kid if you die.

If we die, if we die.

Cristina

So, if you and Derek are on a plane crash and you die, the kid is mine?

Yes.

Cristina

I have to admit, I kind of hope you and Derek die just a little bit. So I can raise the kid with decent priorities.

I have priorities.

Cristina

Oh?

Surgery.

Cristina

Oh, okay then you can raise a good little surgeon. I take it back.

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