- Dr. Meredith Grey: [to her shrink in the elevator] what was the point? All those hours and all that money. what's the point? The world is a horrible place. Young people die of diseases. It makes absolutely no sense to try to be happy in a world that's such a horrible place.
- Dr. Wyatt: [to Meredith] Yes.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
- Dr. Wyatt: Yes, horrible things do happen. Happiness in the face of all of that... that's not the goal. Feeling the horrible and knowing that you're not gonna die from those feelings, that's goal.
- Dr. Wyatt: [she stops the elevator] And you're not done. You've made progress because you're feeling and you're telling me about it. Six months ago, it would've been just you and a bottle of tequila. My door is always open.
- Dr. Mark Sloan: [to Lexie, at the bar] So... a photographic memory, huh?
- [pause]
- Dr. Mark Sloan: Periodic Table. Go.
- Dr. Lexie Grey: Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur. I can keep going.
- Dr. Alex Karev: How you doing in there, Mr O'Brien?
- Jack O'Brien: Could be worse... could have brain leaking from my ears...
- Dr. Alex Karev: That's the spirit!
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Bones break. Organs burst. Flesh tears. We can sew the flesh, repair the damage, ease the pain. But when life breaks down. When we break down. There's no science, no hard and fast rules. We just have to feel our way through, and to a surgeon, there's nothing worse, and there's nothing better.