[voiceover] Being chief is about responsibility. Every single surgical patient in the hospital is your patient. Whether you're the one who cut them open or not. The scalpel stopped with death. You need to be able to look at a family. And to tell them your team did everything they could to save someone's job. The husband, the wife, you get caught up. Taking care of other people's families. And a responsibility... it makes you you take care of other people's families. And you sacrifice your own.
“Didn't We Almost Have It All?” · Season 3, Episode 25
In this episode: Preston Burke (3), Cristina Yang (2), Meredith Grey (1), Derek Shepherd (1), Richard Webber (1), Izzie Stevens (1), Mark Sloan (1), Addison (1)
You're a lucky man, Burke. Cristina's great. She's there. She's sure. She's willing to commit. You're a lucky man.
And you're not?
There he is. T minus five hours. And how's the best man? Up to the challenge? I was an excellent best man.
[scoffs, looks at Burke] Worst case scenario, I sleep with your wife in ten years.
Cristina; I could promise to hold you, and to cherish you. I could promise to be there in sickness and in health. I could say 'til death do us part', but I won't. Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. And I do not stand here on my wedding day optimistic or full of hope.
Okay, um...
I am not optimistic, I am not hopeful. I am sure. I am steady. And I know I am a heart man, take them apart, put them back together. I hold them in my hands. I am a heart man. So this, I am sure. You are my partner, my lover, my very best friend. My heart, my heart, beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this. I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. I promise you, me.
[silence]
Too trite? Because I can rewrite it.
No, no it's...
I think I speak for every woman in this room when I say... dump her. Dump Yang and marry me. [They all laugh.]
Stop whining! This is your wedding day. You will go down that aisle. And you will get married! If I have to kick your ass, every step of the way to get you there. You will walk down the aisle, you will get married. Do you hear me Cristina? We need this. We need you to get your happy ending.
Okay, I'm ready.
I am wearing the dress. I'm ready. And, and maybe I didn't want to before. But I want to now. I really think I want this.
I really wish that you didn't think. I wish that you knew.
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