[voiceover] They say practice makes perfect. Theory is – the more you think like a surgeon, the more you become one, the better you get at remaining neutral, clinical, cut, suture, close - and the harder it becomes to turn it off. To stop thinking like a surgeon, and remember what it means to think like a human being.
S2 E1Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
The clinic has a policy. They wouldn't let me confirm my appointment unless I designated an emergency contact person. Someone to be there just in case and... to know help me home, you know, after. Anyway I put your name down, that's why I told you I'm pregnant. You're my person.
I am?
Yeah, you are. Whatever.
Whatever.
He dumped me. [Meredith hugs Cristina] You realize this constitutes hugging?
Shut up, I'm your person.
S2 E2Enough Is Enough (No More Tears)
Meredith[Voiceover]: I have an aunt who whenever she poured anything for you would say "Say when!" My aunt would say "Say when!" and of course, we never did. We don't say when because there's something about the possibility, of more. [...] More tequila, more love, more anything. More is better.
It's not us. It's them. Them and their stupid boy... penises. They didn't tell me they have a wife. They gave absolutely no warning that they were going to break up with you.
It's not that Burke broke up with me. It's how he broke up with me. Like it was business. Like it was a business trans- Like he's a boss of me!
He is the boss of you.
What's worse is that I care.
Ugh I'm going to throw up again. [Gets up and kneels over the toilet] No. Wait. False alarm.
The problem is estrogen.
No, the problem is tequila.
You know I used to be all business and then he goes and gets me pregnant.
With his stupid boy penis.
Now I'm having hormone surges. He ruined me. I'm ruined! He turned me into this... fat, stupid, pregnant girl. Who cares! Estrogen!
Penises. Penises, Izzie.
Estrogen, George.
[brushing off Derek] I'm a sink with an open drain. Anything you say runs right out! There is no enough! [Storms off]
She probably could have picked a better metaphor.
Give her a break, she's got a hangover.
Meredith[voiceover]: There's something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when to say when. I think it's a floating line. A barometer of need and desire. It's entirely up to the individual. And depends on what's being poured. Sometimes all we want is a taste. Other times there's no such thing as enough, the glass is bottomless. And all we want, is more.
S2 E3Make Me Lose Control
[voiceover] Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in your hand, you feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain. You're ten-feet tall and bulletproof. And then you leave the OR. And all that perfection, all that beautiful control, just falls to crap.
Leave me alone. I've been sitting home for a week, watching Oprah give away things on TV. Oprah, Derek! You clear me now or I'll hurt you.
If you want me to clear you so soon maybe you should've thought of that before you gave chief to Burke and invited Satan to Seattle.
Satan?
Good morning. Richard, like the hat.
Satan speaks.
Actually I prefer to be called ruler of all that is evil. [Richard laughs] But I will answer to Satan.
You have a problem?
No.
You have a mocha latte?
No.
Then go away.
You could talk, you know, I mean, if you need to.
I'm fine.
You said that word so many times today, it doesn't even sound like a word anymore. Just saying you can talk to me. Because, you know, even if I repeat every word you say, no one around here likes me, they'll just call me a liar and move on.
[voiceover] No one likes to lose control, but as a surgeon there's nothing worse. It's a sign of weakness, of not being up to the task. And still there are times when it just gets away from you. When the world stops spinning and you realize that your shiny little scalpel isn't gonna save you. No matter how hard you fight it, you fall. And it's scary as hell. Except if there's an upside to free-falling, it's the chance you give your friends to catch you.
S2 E4Deny, Deny, Deny
[voiceover] The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces.
Meredith kissed me. Addison kissed me. My wife and my girlfriend kissed me on the same day.
Joe, do I look friendly to you?
JJoe
Uh, you're a tiny little kitten of joy and love. [Bailey stares at him] What? He saved my life.
His first mistake. McDreamy, go sit by someone who cares.
Well isn't this cozy. Can I join in or are you not in to threesomes?
I have to go.
Meredith... [To Addison] You really are Satan, you realise that right? If Satan were to take physical form he'd be you, everywhere ... all the time.
I'm so not Satan.
How come you haven't gotten on your broomstick and gone back to New York where you belong?
Stop being petty.
Stop being an adulterous bitch.
You know you are going to forgive me eventually, right? I mean you can't just... I mean there was a time when you thought of me as your best friend—
There was a time where I thought you were the love of my life. Things change.
[...]
Derek, have you ever thought that even if I am Satan and an adulterous bitch that I still might be the love of your life?
[voiceover] Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?
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