I have a daughter. Her name is Harriet.
RRobert
Harriet. Wow, that is wonderful. I'm a grandfather.
No, no you're not. My mom is a wonderful grandmother and you seem like a decent guy. But you're not a grandfather.
S13 E16Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?
[closing voice-over] Freezing. Choking. Getting tongue-tied. There's a reason it happens. We lose our words because the stakes are so high and we have so much to lose. We're petrified of saying too much or saying it wrong. When the truth is, the only wrong thing you could say is nothing at all.
S13 E17Til I Hear It From You
[opening voice-over] Stuff comes apart. An eggshell's never gonna come back together. A window will never unbreak. It's called the second law of thermodynamics. It's also called life. Stuff rarely comes together, but it will always come apart.
There are all sorts of reasons to like me.
Name one.
[silence]
I have to go.
My mother wouldn't let me pierce my ears until I was ten. She told me masturbating made Jesus cry, and nail polish was for prostitutes. Now she wants stripper boobs?
You don't have any right to an opinion, and you certainly don't have the right to bully me.
Bully you?!
You don't have the right to give me ultimatums about when to come home and make up my mind.
Okay...
For better or for worse, that's what you said. Well, guess what, this is the for worse. And you don't have the right to just decide that I don't have myself together, okay? You don't make me the one who's wrong. I'm tired of being the messed up one, okay, because I'm not. You are at least as messed up as me.
You disappeared!
You are suffocating me!
That is unfair.
Really? I would love to ask Cristina how suffocated she felt by you, by your needs, by your idea of a baby, by what you want.
I don't have a good reason. I tried to come up with one. So then I thought, "Well, why do I like her?" And I don't know. From the first time I saw you, you were at the OR board. You were talking with Pierce, and she said something that made you laugh, and I couldn't move. And then I had to wait for you to write your name on the board because I just needed to know who you were. So, I don't have a good reason for you to like me. I didn't even try to like you. I didn't want to. And I certainly don't want to have to think about you all the time, trying to come in early, see your name on the board, come up with that one thing that's gonna make you smile so your eyes do that thing they do. Anyway, so that's why I joke so much and to keep from having to say anything like this. So, I don't have a good reason. I'm sorry. I wish I did.
Okay, so you should ask me out to dinner.
Do you want to go out to dinner?
Yes.
[closing voice-over] Everything comes apart at some point. We all will. It's the law. It's what we're designed to do. We have to face it and accept it, and try to hold it together, for as long as we can.
S13 E18Be Still, My Soul
[opening voice-over] When my mother's Alzheimer's got bad, I was going through her bills and I found a notepad. Written on it were the words "Important. Tell Meredith not to." And that was it. She never finished that sentence. Tell Meredith not to what? Not to drink too much? Not to pet strange dogs? Not to give her heart away? Not to leave the sprinklers on? We didn't exactly talk a lot during those days. I regret that. I wish we had.
We are only doing her harm.
You don't get it! You wouldn't. Meredith, I love my mother enough not to say "screw it" and throw her down a damn drain!
Diane, you don't have to keep putting yourself through this. Not if you don't want to.
DDiane
I was born in a two-room shed with an outhouse, six brothers, not a lot of food or love or anything. Getting out of there was... When that social worker put this little baby in my arms, when I looked down at my Maggie... Maggie's the universe giving me a gift. She is a happy person. She's cheerful. Maggie is rare. She's special. This will give her darkness. How can I do that to the most special person in the whole world? When I die, she needs to know that she did everything that she could.
Diane, she has. Maggie's done everything there is to do.
DDiane
I can't stop. I can't do that to her.
She can take it. You may not see it because you've known her since she was a little girl. I mean, I didn't. I only know the woman you raised. And that woman is smart, and strong as iron, especially for the people she loves. Now, well... now I see where she gets it.
DDiane
I don't want to die.
She's gonna go. I'm not ready. I'm not ready.
You're never ready. You just...do it. Listen to her. Talk to her about whatever she wants to talk about. Record her voice in your mind. Just keep sitting there.
[closing voice-over] I think about my mom's note all the time. Tell Meredith not to... not to cave? Not to care? Not to give up so easily? Not to fall in love? Not to have children? Not to tell a lie? She left me wondering what to do, what not to do. She left me knowing everything was up to me and me alone. And she left me with no one to ask. So I would decide what she meant to write. Tell Meredith not to be afraid. Goodbye, Mom.
S13 E19What's Inside
[opening voice-over] Curiosity killed the cat. It also killed a lot of Ancient Greeks when Pandora had to open that box full of death and pestilence and stuff. Why do we have to know what's behind door number three, even when we're pretty sure it'll be bad for us?
I guess it's better than the way I did grief.
Which time?
The time with the Oxy binges.
[shrugs] I go a little dark and twisty, but then I come back.
A little dark and twisty? You disappeared. You had a secret baby.
Please don't refer to your niece as my secret baby.
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