[voiceover] You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be – white dress, Prince Charming who'd carry you away to a castle on a hill. You'd lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming – they were so close you could taste them. But eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is, it's hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely because almost everyone still has that smallest bit of hope and faith that one day they'll open their eyes and it will all come true.
“Save Me” · Season 1, Episode 8
In this episode: Meredith Grey (5), Derek Shepherd (3)
It's just that I hardly know anything about you.
You know I'm from New York. You know I like ferry boats.
Enough with the ferry boats. What about your friends?
I'm a surgeon. I don't have friends.
Everybody has friends. I mean, who do you hang out with? What do you do on your days off? These are important questions.
Ah, important for who?
We're having sex every night. I think I deserve details.
You have more details than most.
[after Meredith bombards him with questions] Lighten up. It'd be good for your blood pressure.
Oh, don't you tell me to lighten up. I'll lighten up when I....feel light.
I'm going to cut here from the base of the neck to the rib cage. I want you to hit the bleeders.
I still don't think we should be doing this.
[Derek cuts into the patient's back.]
This guy has a spinal hematoma.
We don't know that.
Which left untreated are almost always fatal.
You're cutting blind. Whatever happened to being practical?
I need to see more here. Retractor. [uses retractor to expose the spinal column]
Wow. The spine.
There's no wow in "practical".
[voiceover] At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it's not so important, that it's happy ever after, just that it's happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you, and once in a while people may even take your breath away.
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