April Kepner quotes from Grey's Anatomy

April

[about having to sit next to Shane Ross at Miranda's wedding dinner] It's like having dinner with "Ripley's believe it or not!"

April

(to Jackson and her mother Karen) You are not helping, neither of you. I am standing here, listening to you tell me that God only gives me one choice, and you telling me that I should forgo God's choice. And the truth is, I don't know anything expect that I am scared and sad and I'm alone. You're both just standing there, yelling at each other and talking at me, but I am alone, and it is terrifying! And the louder you get, the more terrified I become, so I just need you both to just shut up! Can you do that? Can you please... Can you please both just shut up?!

April

[opening voice over] There's a thing we say when someone dies. We say it to the patients's family. We say, 'I'm sorry for your loss.' It's a pat little phrase and an empty one. It doesn't begin to cover what's actually happening to them. It lets us empathize without forcing us to feel their devastation ourselves. It protects us from feeling that pain, that dark, sinking, relentless pain. The kind that can eat you alive. And every day, I thank God for that.

April

[ending voice over] We can't get too close. If we felt even little of the joy and the hopes that our patients are saying goodbye to, we'd never be able to function. So we say, 'We're sorry for your loss.' and we hope it offers something. Some little bit of support. Some bit of peace. Some bit of closure. Something good. Some little piece of beauty in the midst of some place dark. An unexpected gift, just when it's needed most.

April

[opening voice-over] In trauma, we're concerned with one overriding question. How did this happen? What was the mechanism of injury? How do we see pass the mess and confusion of trauma to figure out what the damage actually is? Infinite possibilities put the patient on the table in front of you. Now you have to figure out, will they live? Will you be able to save them or are they a lost cause? Every part of a trauma tells a different piece of the story and until you look at each and every injury, you can see what went wrong.

April

What...what is it Jackson? What... what pisses you off so much... that I chose to go after the thing that I needed to heal or that the thing I needed wasn't you?

April

[closing voice-over] We talk about the mechanism of injury, about where it all started, but the truth is, it's sort of a myth. We can't boil every injury down to one single blow. What hurts us is cumulative. It happens over time. We absorb blow after blow, shock after shock, painful hit after hit. But even then, even if we know exactly how we got here, it doesn't mean we can fix it. we can't heal every wound and that's okay. I have to believe it's okay. I have to believe that even if something seems like it cannot be fixed, it doesn't mean it's broken.

April

Jackson, I know what a good father is. I had one my whole life. Jackson, you are a good father...You came here to tell him something. Don't leave here until you do.

April

I always wanted a Harper Avery. I had a Jackson Avery. It’s not the same thing.

April

People change, you know, and life…life changes us, and our one job…really, our one job, is to… is to stay open to possibility, right?

They hate us, April. It doesn't matter how good we are, we're gonna fail. Because they were here first and they rule the school, and they hate us.

April

I'm not gonna let them turn me into someone they hate, I'm easy to like.

Actually, it takes a while. I hated you at first.

Derek

[seeing April covered in blood] April, what is it?

April

Did you know I grew up on a farm?

Derek

What happened?

April

I... I grew up on a farm, so you know, blood... blood doesn't bother me, I... I slaughtered a pig once. That was a lot of blood. 'Bleeding like a stuck pig.' That's a saying. To bleed like a pig, you know, it means something. But you don't think of people as having that much blood. I mean, you learn in med school how many pints we all have in us, but you don't realize it until you see it. You don't get how much blood... And a skinny person? I mean, my God, Reed, she's like almost anorexic. She's like, five pounds, you wouldn't think she'd have that much blood in her, but she did. She did.

Derek

[trying to interrupt her] April, April, April! You're in shock. It's alright. Tell me what happened.

April

Reed's dead. Someone shot her.

Derek

Police are almost here. I'm gonna leave you here. Are you gonna be okay by yourself?

April

You're leaving? You just said that nobody leaves, nobody moves, nobody breathes...

Derek

Nobody but me. I'm the chief. This is my hospital.

April

[running a simulation] Sir! You said the helicopter was gonna be here hours ago, And it's not here, and I'm not complaining, but where is it?

Hunt

Well, the rain's still pretty bad. Probably got caught in a hail storm.

April

No! No! I know what that card is gonna say. It's gonna say he has cardiac tamponade with associated hypotension and bradycardia, but he can't, 'cause I already did a pericardiocentesis and bolused with IV fluids.

She's right. What do I do? Do I ...

April

Karev! Grab his feet. [Karev goes to grab Steve's feet] The patient! Come on!

Owen

Hey, hey, hey. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Alex

This is awesome! [helping to load dummy onto ambulance]

Owen

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you think you're doing? This ambulance is not in play.

April

Oh, you're just making stuff up, which I can do too! And I say it is in play. Can't fit nine patients on an ambulance, but two will fit just fine. Seven of my patients may have died today, but these two won't! 'Cause I'm gonna get them on this ambulance, and I'm gonna take 'em to that hospital right there!

Alex

Alright!

Owen

Kepner, this ambulance was involved in the accident and no longer runs.

April

There are keys in the ignition, so let's see. Looks like I got triple-A. Ha! Apparently they could get here when the helicopter couldn't. Now MOVE! Or I will run you down!

Owen

[to Alex] Go. Let's go. [They run to hospital entrance. Ambulance pulls up]

April

John Doe, multiple chest and extremity trauma. Still hypotensive despite two large-bore IVs started in the field.

Owen

All right, Kepner. That's enough.

April

We need a full workup and likely a thoracotomy. [walks into hospital carrying dummy over her shoulder] I suspect active bleeding in the chest.

Alex

Will you tell us we won, or she's never gonna stop.

Owen

It's not a contest.

April

Karev! Call the OR and make sure that there's a room available.

Alex

Will do.

Owen

All right, all right, fine. Blue team wins.

April

Blue team wins?

Owen

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you win. He's gonna live for 40 more years and have 15 grandkids. You happy?

April

[drops dummy] Blue team wins!

Owen

Yes.

April

[hugs Alex] Yeah!

Callie

[while trying to set a hip dislocation] It is his body! Okay? You don't get to say what he can and can't do with it! He is a person! He gets to make his own damn choices! I AM GOING THROUGH THE WORST CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL OF MY LIFE BECAUSE SOMEONE THINKS THAT BEING PREGNANT MEANS THAT I'M NO LONGER OF SOUND FRICKIN' MIND!

April

You're pregnant?!

Callie

Shut up! I'm not endangering my baby, I just-I just want one damn cup of coffee!

Owen

Okay...Kepner, go get Dr. Torres a cup of coffee.

April

Okay.

Owen

[to April] RUN!

Callie

[panting] Thank you.

Owen

Congratula-

Callie

[exasperated] Oh whatever. Just come around here and help me with his hip!