[voiceover] There's nothing else we can do for you. These are the last words a surgeon wants to tell a patient. Giving up doesn't come easy to us, so we do everything in our power not to. For surgeons "lost cause" just means..."try a little harder".
S8 E12Hope For The Hopeless
[to Meredith] You want to waste your talent playing with one little predictable organ for the rest of your life? Nah, I'd rather spend my days leaping from the liver to the pancreas to the stomach to the bowel, and any one could go wrong at anytime. There's nothing wrong with knowing one organ and knowing it well, just like there's nothing wrong with being fifth-chair viola in the back of the orchestra. But it's a hell of a lot more fun being the conductor.
They're not called lost causes because they're fun.
I don't need them to be fun. I just need them to not be like today.
Ok. Let's flip.
Ugh.
Heads, you keep doing lost causes. Tails, you can do the fun stuff.
Bailey says you're declaring general.
Actually, I'm not sure anymore.
Oh. Oh, I thought it was a done deal. I mean, it makes sense since you're––
Because of my mother. I know. Don't you mention her, too. That's all anyone ever says it's in my blood, it's my legacy. That's why I don't want to do it. I don't want to be like my mother.
Meredith, look at everything you did today this party for your daughter, what you did for me in that O.R. You don't have to ever worry about being anything like your mother. I knew her, and you're nothing like your mother. You have a gift. Don't waste it.
[voiceover] When do you throw in the towel? Admit that a lost cause it's sometimes just that? There comes a point when it all becomes too much. When we get too tired to fight anymore. So we give up. That's when the real work begins. To find hope where there seems to be absolutely none at all.
S8 E13If/Then
[voiceover] The baby you have is the baby you were destined to have. It was meant to be. That's what all the adoption people tell you. Anyway... I like to think it's true, but everything else in the world seems so completly random. What if one little thing I said or did could have made it all fall apart? What if I've choosen another life for myself? Or another person? We might have never found each other. What if I've been raised differently? What if my mother had never been sick? What if I've actually had a good father? What if...? What if...? What if...?
[Alternate universe]
What the hell is wrong with me?
I just lost my job. Do you see me crying? I have no earthly idea what to do next, but am I hiding in an elevator, whimpering about it?
No.
No. Because what do we say, Alex? What do we say? "We create our own destiny."
[Alternate universe]
Meredith!
No, Dad. Don't come and clean up after her again. You do it every time and it's beneath you and it's pointless. I can't do anything right for her.
Your mother doesn't...
And I finally figured out why. She wants everyone around her to be ordinary, so she can be extraordinary. She wants everyone around her small!
Oh, you stop it!
And that's what she's done to you. She has made you small, and I'm not gonna let her do it to me.
[voiceover] Your life is a gift. Accept it. No matter how screwed up or how painful it seems to be. Somethings are going to work out as if they were destined to happen... As if they were just meant to be.
S8 E14All You Need Is Love
[voiceover] There are times in our lives when love really does conquer all: exhaustion, sleep deprivation, anything. And then there are those times when it seems like love brings us nothing but pain.
[Derek and Meredith are kissing in bed with Zola sleeping in between them.]
There's a baby in the bed.
I know there's a baby in the bed.
[grins] There's no baby in the shower.
[grins] There is no baby in the shower.
[excitedly] All right.
[Derek and Meredith get out of bed and head to the bathroom]
[looks at Zola's bath toys] There's a baby in the shower, too.
[continues kissing Meredith] Oh, come on. Just look the other way.
I can't do it in front of the duckies.
Yes, you can. Do it in front of the duckies.
[Mark answers the door and is surprised to see Jackson.]
I got steak and I bought a really good red, and a salad, and I'm gonna cook for you.
Avery, I have a girlfriend.
And she's operating tonight, so as soon as you put Sofia down, you can help me study for my boards, 'cause I am behind. Way behind.
What'd you pay for that bottle of wine?
50 bucks.
[Mark lets him in]
Our patient's seizures stopped, and you know why?
No.
Because I found this teratoma on her ovary.
Well, you know, you could've told me this at dinner. You didn't have to show me a chopped up ovary.
Little sucker thought it could hide from me, but it couldn't. It took a while, but I finally figured out where it was, and I went in and nailed it.
[grins] You are so sexy when you're looking at a teratoma.
[voiceover] We are always looking for ways to ease the pain. Sometimes we ease the pain by making the best of what we have. Sometimes is by losing ourselves in the moment and sometimes all we need to do to ease pain is... call a simple truce.
S8 E15Have You Seen Me Lately?
[voiceover] When you've tried everything but that headache don't go away, you can't stop coughing, the swelling don't go down. That's when you turn into a professional. As surgeon we spend years developing skills of perception that allow us to see exactly what the problem is. Trouble is sometimes all that time spent developing those skills of perception can leave a person with an extremely narrow point of view... And how are you supposed to argue with someone who has science on their side?
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