- Dr. Meredith Grey: What do you mean? I don't know what you mean when you say she didn't want to die.
- Dr. Katharine Wyatt: When you were sitting on the floor with your mother, what did she say to you?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: She told me to be extraordinary. She said that she had failed, but that I should be extraordinary, that I shouldn't depend on anyone. "Be an extraordinary woman, Meredith," is what she said.
- Dr. Katharine Wyatt: And so you became a surgeon, just like her.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Yes.
- Dr. Katharine Wyatt: Which means you have all the tools to figure this out for yourself.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: But I just...
- Dr. Katharine Wyatt: You need to work this through, Meredith. I promise you, when you do, you're gonna be glad.