Cristina Yang quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Derek

Meredith didn't want kids. I pushed her... She opened herself up. Now I feel like I... I did this to her.

Cristina

She wanted it, too. Or it wouldn't have happened.

Derek

She'll blame me... like I've been blaming her. We lost Zola and now if I lose Meredith...

Cristina

She always comes back. She might need a minute to back away, but... she comes back.

Meredith

Look at this face. Seriously, look at this face.

Cristina

Yeah, yeah, yeah, super cute. They're in the spinal cord now.

Meredith

Bailey spent the last two hours telling me how crappy my life is, but look at this face. Oh, Zola, look. [points at Derek] There's your daddy. He's about to repair a myelomeningocele. [coos to Zola] Can you say myelomeningocele?

Cristina

Did you have any pets growing up?

April

Uh, a fish tank, couple hamsters, two dogs-- Why?

Cristina

I'm just trying to get to know you better, that's it.

April

Okay.

Cristina

What were your dogs' names?

April

Well, let's see.. Uh, there was Buster...

April

And, um, Pickles.

April

Pickles was a Schnauzer.

Cristina

What was your mother's maiden name?

April

Are you hacking me?

Cristina

I need the nurses' schedule.

April

I don't schedule the nurses. If you knew anything about how this hospital was run, you would know...

Cristina

You know the nurses' schedule. You are April Kepner. You know everything.

Cristina

Aw, Karev. Is this hard for you, having to beg for interviews while some of us just sit back and get wooed?

Alex

No one is begging.

April

Oh, yeah, maybe you should. Maybe that way, you'd actually get an interview.

Cristina

Ha! I love mean Kepner.

Alex

I got an interview.

April

Oh, really, where?

Alex

At... places.

Cristina

Owen slept with someone.

Meredith

Yeah.

Cristina

Did you know it?

Meredith

Yeah.

Cristina

Does everyone know?

Meredith

No. He thought you've told me, so he told me. Anyway that's how I know.

Cristina

OK.

Meredith

He is a pig and you deserve better. Are you still there?

Cristina

Yeah. I'm still here

Cristina

Well he is my husband. This is a marriage.

Meredith

OK.

Cristina

Oh I wanna leave him.

Meredith

OK.

Cristina

So that means I'm gone.

Meredith

So you are gonna take the job at Stanford?

Cristina

Or Columbia.

Meredith

You'll be leaving me too.

Cristina

You might go to the Bringham.

Meredith

Probably not.

Cristina

Maybe. Yeah I'll leave you too... There're phones you know.

Meredith

Oh, you hate the phone.

Cristina

I know I do. But I mean I don't have to like it.

Meredith

Put your hand under the door.

Cristina

What?

Meredith

Just do it.

You seem awfully sure of yourself

Cristina

I'm sorry. Is that a question?

You feel threatened?

Cristina

Oh. Have we moved into psychology?

I find your hostility curious.

Cristina

I'm curious as to why you think me hostile.

You know, if you don't agree with my approach I wish you'd voice your issues.

Cristina

I don't disagree.

I don't believe you.

Cristina

Are you calling me a liar, sir? Fine. You know what? Earlier when I said I was OK with that open procedure I wasn't. That might have been OK when Hawkeye and BJ did it on MASH. But being the new century and all, I would have, as I said earlier, treated endoscopically.

Then you lied earlier.

Cristina

You know. Oh God. I can answer these questions any way you want using medical techniques from any era. So how about if we just... You know pick a decade you are comfortable with and go from there.

Well then. It's been a pleasure being witness to such a genius. I can now finally retire knowing that such advanced and creative minds work in the surgical field.

Cristina

That's it?

Oh I think we've had enough of an education today Dr. Yang.

Cristina

But... there still twenty minutes.

No need. Oh... best of luck.

Alex

Hopkins!

Cristina

Uh, Hopkins is not in the running.

Alex

Not for you, for me! Hopkins! Hopkins wants me, HOPKINS WANTS ME!

Cristina

Johns Hopkins? The hospital? Not Hopkins Refrigeration School?

Meredith

[at the same time] Alex, how?

Alex

I kind of bitched out their Chief of Surgery at my boards and I-I guess he was impressed.

Cristina

So they know you're a jerk.

Alex

They totally know, And they want me. Hopkins wants me!

Meredith

[smiling] I am not surprised at all.

Cristina

I am one-hundred percent surprised.

Cristina

Hey.

Cristina

[gives Karev a hug] Nice work, Evil Spawn.

Alex

[Smiles and turns and walks away happily] Yes! Hopkins!

Cristina

Are you still pining over Jackson?

April

No. God. No. Why? Is he seeing someone?

Cristina

April, April, Jackson is like a cookie. [holds up cookie in front of April's face] People want to lose weight, they don't eat the cookie. But then they get so hung up on not having the cookie that their whole life is about the cookie.

Arizona

Jackson Avery really has a bigger say than any of us in running this hospital?

Cristina

That can't be true. Can it?

Derek

Well, he's a voting member of the management team and he also represents the Harper Avery Foundation.

Callie

And their $175 million bucks.

Arizona

As opposed to our $15 million apiece.

Derek

According to Stan, not only does he have the deciding vote, he can veto ours.

Cristina

That is ridiculous. He's a fellow.

Meredith

So are you.

Cristina

But he's a plastics fellow. And I'm me.

Cristina

Can your mind be blown on your own time? Right now I have to talk with my supervisor.

Heather

Um, well, you own the hospital now. So doesn't that make you the supervisor?

Cristina

It does. So I will have that conversation with myself.

Cristina

You know, it's like everyone has gone crazy. Owen and Derek are at each other's throats. Avery's on some kind of power trip. You know, I am supposed to be prepping for a major transplant and Callie's left me with an OR board that's like a Rubik's Cube.

Meredith

[deadpan] Wow. In charge one day, and already the hospital's spinning out of control?

Callie

Well, you should be staring at my wife. [points to Arizona]

Meredith

New haircut?

Callie

No. It's her leg. She's wearing high heels. Because she has a sexy high-heel leg that makes her ass go pow. [Arizona shakes her butt]

Cristina

[facetiously] Ooh wow.

Meredith

[giggles] Hey!

Derek

Wow.

Cristina

Baby got back.

Callie

[to Jackson, Derek and Richard, who are looking embarrassed] Come on, guys. You can comment, too. You have permission. It's the one time in your life you can say it and not be gross.

Webber

Well, I think it's a fine gluteal––

Arizona

[points at Richard] Oh, no.

Cristina

[about her coma patient] No, I know what you're thinking. EEG. I've already done one, and he's not having seizures. So why hasn't he woken up? Yeah. I've asked every doctor in the hospital for their opinion, and no one has any ideas. Oh, my god. You're right. Go global. Bailey, you are a genius.

Callie

Oh, Cristina. How'd it go with Bailey?

Cristina

So great.

Callie

Did you get her to talk?

Cristina

No.

Cristina

I felt such joy today in that dark OR. I could hear the blood moving. I knew exactly what the heart muscle was thinking. And I realized after I feel that way all the time. I'm made for the OR. Even the boring procedures, I can feel pure joy, content. You feel that with just me?

Owen

What kind of a question is that?

Cristina

Derek watches Zola put applesauce in her ear and he's enchanted. You felt that way with Ethan.