Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

I Will Follow You Into the Dark (2009)

Ellen Pompeo: Dr. Meredith Grey

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• Dr. Meredith Grey : Every surgeon has a shadow. And the only way to get rid of a shadow, is to turn off the light. To stop running from the darkness, and face what you fear. Head on.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : Every surgeon I know has a shadow. A dark cloud of fear and doubts that follows even the best of us into the or.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : Every surgeon has a shadow. And the only way to get rid of a shadow is to turn off the light. To stop running from the darkness, and face what you fear. Head on.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : What's this "Patient X" thing that's taking all the interns?

  Dr. Cristina Yang : When's it going to be over? I need minions to do all my crap work.

  Dr. Alex Karev : It's some new teaching thing.

  Dr. Cristina Yang : We're all killing ourselves to get into the OR. When's the last time Izzie held a scalpel? She's falling behind. She's like the new O'Malley.

  Dr. Alex Karev : Izzie's nothing like O'Malley.

  Dr. George O'Malley : Hello.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [to Derek]  You cleaned all of your clothes out of the closet at the house.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : Go home, Mer. Just go home.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Well, how long are you planning on hiding out here? Because that's what you're doing. You're hiding. You made a mistake, she's dead and you can't hide from that.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : I'm not hiding. I'm done. I'm done operating.

  [starts hitting empty beer cans with a baseball bat] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Oh, okay. So you're just quitting?

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : You should understand better than anybody else. You wrote the book on quitting, running, hiding. You've written a lot of books, Meredith.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [to Derek]  How'd it go with the lawyers?

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : They told me my death rate.

  [looks at the small pile of files] 

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : These are the people I saved.

  [looks at the big pile of files] 

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : These are the people I killed.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Okay. Well, most of those people were terminal when they came to you. You were their last chance and you take on impossible cases. Look at the clinical trial.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : It's just so many people. More than Dahmer, Mason, and Bundy combined.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : You're not looking at the big picture.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [points to the big stack of files]  This is the big picture.

• Dr. Alex Karev : [about Derek]  Dude, he's fried.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : He is not fried. He lost a patient and got hit with a lawsuit all in the all in one week. He just needs time.

  Dr. Alex Karev : He's been sitting there for three days. The sofa cushions are gonna start bonding to his ass and he's eating all of my cereal.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : He's taking stock. Something huge and life-altering happened to him and he's taking stock, figuring out his next move. We shouldn't judge him. We shoudn't rush him.

  Dr. Alex Karev : Whatever. Sylvia Plath's picking out all of the marshmallows. They're the best part!