High school with scalpels

Grey’s Anatomy: Love the One You’re With ↳ When we follow our hearts, when we choose not to settle, it’s funny. Isn’t it? A weight lifts, the sun shines a little brighter, and for a brief moment, we find a little peace.

Grey’s Anatomy: Remember the Time ↳ You were right, about all of it. You were right. This is a place where horrible things happen. You were right to go - you’re probably escaping disaster. Look at me, I practically grew up here. And you’re right, it’s hurt me in ways I’ll probably never get over. I have a lot of memories of people, people I’ve lost forever, but I have a lot of other memories too. This is the place where I fell in love. The place where I found my family. This is where I learned to be a doctor, where I learned to take responsibility for someone else’s life. And it’s the place I met you. So I figure this place has given me as much as it has taken from me. I’ve lived here as much as I’ve survived here, it just depends on how I look at it. I’m going to choose to look at it that way and remember you that way.

Grey’s Anatomy: Going Going Gone ↳ They say death is hardest on the living. It’s tough to actually say goodbye. Sometimes it’s impossible. You never really stop feeling the loss. It’s what makes things so bittersweet. We leave little bits of ourselves behind, little reminders, a lifetime of memories, photos, trinkets, things to remember us by… even after we’re gone.

We stay here, we work here, we move into that beautiful house that you built us. That was our plan. That was before you got a job in Boston. And that was before our plane crashed!

Grey’s Anatomy: Flight ↳ The years we spend as surgical residents will be the best and worst of our lives. We will be pushed to our breaking point. This is the starting line. This is our arena. How well we play? That’s up to us.

Grey’s Anatomy: Migration ↳ So there is this bird, some sort of swallow I think. Every September thousands of them ditch rainy Seattle to winter in Mexico. These birds aren’t dumb. And every year crowds of people gather around to drink beer and watch the flocks take off. They call it the Great Migration. I don’t know how those birds do it. Travel thousand of miles without getting lost. Banging into windows, being eaten by cats. But every spring they are always here. I guess they come back to what they know. People say it’s pretty cool watching them go. They say you can actually see the moment when at some mysterious signal, all at once, the birds decide to leave. So maybe I’ve been missing out. There’s always next year.

Grey’s Anatomy: Let The Bad Times Roll ↳ Carpe diem. How annoying is carpe diem? How are you supposed to plan a life? A career? A family? If you’re always “carpe”-ing the “diem”? If we all seized every moment of every day, there wouldn’t be doctors. Who’d sit through med school? We’d all be too busy living in the now, whatever that means.

Grey’s Anatomy: Moment Of Truth ↳ Kindergarten. High school. College. Med School. Residency. That all leads to one moment. Some people crack under the pressure–others thrive. Either way, there’s nothing left to do. No more studying, no more preparing. Like it or not, the moment has arrived. The only thing left for you to do is show up.

Grey’s Anatomy: The Girl With No Name ↳ It’s one of those things people say. You can’t move on until you let go of with the past. Letting go is the easy part, it’s the moving on that’s painful. So sometimes we fight it, trying to keep things the same. Things can’t stay the same though. At some point you just have to let it go. Move on. Because no matter how painful it is, it’s the only way we grow.

Grey’s Anatomy: Support System ↳ The human body is made of systems that keep it alive. There’s the one that keeps you breathing and the one that keeps you standing. The one that makes you hungry and the one that makes you happy. They are all connected; take one piece out and everything else falls apart. And it’s only when our support systems look like they might fail us, that we realize how much we’ve depended on them all along.

Grey’s Anatomy: The Lion Sleeps Tonight ↳ We’ve all heard the warnings and we’ve ignored them. We push our luck, we roll the dice, we play with fire. It’s human nature, when we’re told not to touch something, we usually do even if we know better. Maybe because deep down we’re just asking for trouble.

Grey’s Anatomy: One Step Too Far ↳ Our intentions are always pure, we always want to do what’s right, but we also have the drive to push boundaries. So we are in danger of taking things too far. We’re told to do no harm while we’re trained to cut you open with a knife. So we do things when we should have left well enough alone. Because it’s hard to admit when there’s no problem to treat, to let it alone. Before we make it so much worse. Before we cause such terrible damage.

Grey’s Anatomy: If Only You Were Lonely ↳ You can seek the advice of others, surround yourself with trusted advisers. But in the end, the decision is always yours, and yours alone. And when it’s time to act, you’re all alone with your back against the wall. The only voice that matters is the one in your head. The one telling you what you probably already knew. The one that’s almost always right.

Grey’s Anatomy: Have You Seen Me Lately? ↳ Actually, finding out that you’ve been looking at things all wrong can be sort of liberating. And suddenly you see a new potential, new possibilities where you’ve never seen them before. And that’s all fine when a hopeless situation suddenly looks good. Unfortunately, sometimes it goes the other way.

“These are the things we beg for: a root canal, an IRS audit, coffee spilled on our clothes… When the really terrible things happen, we start begging a God we don’t believe in to bring back the little horrors and take away this. It seems quaint now, doesn’t it? The flood in the kitchen, the poison oak, the fight that leaves you shaking with rage… Would it have helped if we could see what else was coming? Would we have known that those were the best moments of our lives?”