[voiceover] Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. But as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.
S3 E21Desire
S3 E22The Other Side of This Life
[voiceover] The dream is this - that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals: find the guy, finish our internship, that's the dream. Then we get there. And if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else. Because, if this is the dream, then we'd like to wake up. Now, please!
Okay. I rescheduled an ACL repair, but I want to be clear: I will not be wearing pink or baby blue. I do not do flowers in my hair. And I will never be seen with a bow on my ass, okay?
See? She's got the right attitude.
NNaomi
Addison, I did everything exactly the way I was supposed to. After college, I never dated anyone except Sam, because he was the one. I never had sex with Sam, because cheating is wrong. I had a baby, because that's what you do when you get married. I never made a single mistake, I did everything right. And then Sam comes home and says he wants a divorce. So all those photos you're busy admiring, all they are are reminders of stuff I didn't do. I'm 38 years old, and I don't know how to have fun. That's not lucky, that's sad! So, just shut up about lucky!
Poor, sad, dried up Naomi.
NNaomi
Shut up.
Poor, little, special, talented, doctor girl. That may be good for a TV movie, but... poor, little, special, dried up girl, who has no fun.
NNaomi
I can put you out. You'd have to sleep in the car. You're just... [sighs] I just wish I'd been a little bit more like you.
What, an adulteress bitch who forgot to have kids?
CCooper
That's the point. I thought I was done being single. I thought she was going to be the mother of my children.
SSam
What was her name, again?
CCooper
sexyboobs316.
PPete
Are you... dude are you crying?
CCooper
No.
SSam
You better be crying about that car, not over sexyboobs315.
CCooper
316!
[voiceover] At some point maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves the reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But the strongest of us, the most determined of us, we hold onto the dream, or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We awake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.
S3 E24Testing 1-2-3
[voiceover] A surgeon's education never ends. Every patient, every symptom, every operation... is a test. A chance for us to demonstrate how much we know. And how much more we have to learn.
So, how you feeling, Preston? You ready?
I'm always ready for surgery.
I think he's talking about the wedding.
Yeah, tomorrow's a big day.
And apart from the fact that Cristina hasn't written her vows, my best man just cancelled, and it's still raining.
He's not ready.
You're never ready. I certainly wasn't. And then, the minute I saw Adele coming down that aisle... Well. Have you picked your best man?
Actually, Chief...
You can't be his best man!
Why not?
It's unethical; it's a conflict of interest. The man wants to be Chief of Surgery.
Actually, Derek...
Not that that's why you're asking...
I was going to ask you.
Ask me what? [pauses] Oh! Really?
We have been through a lot this year.
And everybody else turned you down. Alright, what do I have to do?
Well, traditionally, the best man plans the bachelor party.
Drinks at Joe's after work.
I knew you were the man for the job.
This is what you invited me to? This is your big bachelor party?
It was last minute, I needed some more bodies.
Which would explain why I'm here.
Why am I the only girl, by the way? What am I, the entertainment? I am not stripping.
[referring to himself and Mark] That's okay, we've seen it already.
True.
I haven't.
S3 E25Didn't We Almost Have It All?
[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.
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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