Meredith: [voiceover] In the OR, time loses all meaning. In the midst of sutures, and saving lives... the clock ceases to matter. 15 minutes... 15 hours — inside the OR, the best surgeons make time fly. Outside the OR, however, time takes pleasure in kicking our asses. For even the strongest of us it seems to play tricks. Slowing down... hovering... until it freezes. Leaving us stuck in a moment — unable to move in one direction or the other.

Meredith: [pause, glances around] Why are you all looking at me?

Cristina: Well, this is familiar territory for you.

Meredith: There is nothing familiar abut this! Unfamiliar! Denny died. The man she loves, died.

Cristina: Yeah, but you're all dark and twisty inside.

Meredith: I am not dark and twisty!

Cristina: What, with the Alzheimers thing and the father you don't talk to.

Alex: And the tequila thing and the inappropriate men thing.

George: You are dark and twisty inside, Meredith, and now Izzie is dark and twisty inside.

Meredith: So all of a sudden I'm the president of people with crappy lives?

Meredith: Denny died. Burke got shot. Let's just have a little perspective and realize that what I did was a tiny, slightly small...

Cristina: Oh, whatever, just spit it out!

Meredith: I lost my panties, last night.

Cristina: You and McDreamy did the Nasty Nasty?

[Meredith glares at her]

Meredith: Cristina!

Cristina: I'm not judging! I'm just trying to wrap my mind around it. I mean, you are with Finn and he's with Addison.

Meredith: He's married to Addison.

Cristina: YEAH! [pause] Well what did Derek say?

Meredith: He said "Meredith what does this mean?"

Cristina: Ugh! Ok! He has sex with you and he's standing there all McGuilty and all he can say is "Oh, What does this mean?" [pause] What does this mean?

Callie: [to Finn] Four years of high school, four years of college, four years of med school : by the time we graduate we're in our late twenties and we've never done anything except go to school and think about science. Time stops. We're socially retarded. Ha, I mean, look at me, I'm in love with a guy who won't say he loves me back and here I am, in his kitchen, just hoping he comes home and notices me. I'm a total freak. I'm that girl, who sits in the back of the class and eats her hair. And Meredith, shes seventeen years old, we're all seventeen years old. This is high school with scalpels, Finn.

[Finn and Callie are laughing, Meredith walks into the kitchen]

Callie: Oh, Uh, I'm gonna... I'm gonna leave the room for a period of time for no reason whatsoever. [leaves]

Finn: I don’t know what happened last night, between you and Derek.

Meredith: Finn.

Finn: And I don't wanna know, alright, we never said that we are exclusive.

Meredith: But... you have plans.

Finn: Yeah, well I didn't say I wasn't pissed off. I said we weren't exclusive. That’s all I wanted to say... Oh, and this... I know you think you're scary and damaged.

Meredith: Dark and twisty.

Finn: It makes you think you don't deserve good things, but you do. And Derek, he's bad for you. But me, I'm a good thing. And if there is a race, if there is a ring, my hat is in.

Izzie: I feel like I'm moving in slow motion and everything around me is moving so fast... and I just want to go back to when things were normal, when I wasn't poor Izzie laying on the bathroom floor in her prom dress with her... her dead fiancee. But I am. So I can't. And...I'm just stuck... And there's all this pressure cause everyones hovering around waiting for me to do something or say something or flip out or yell or cry some more. And I'm happy to play my part. I'm happy to say the lines and do whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing if it would make everyone feel more comfortable. But I don't... I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to be this person. I don't know who this person is.

Meredith: Izzie...

Izzie: How did this happen? Why did we end up here? Why am I alone? Where's Denny?

Meredith: You're not alone, Iz.

George: That woman died. She actually died.

Derek: Doesn't mean we will.

George: Is it hot in here?

Derek: (Dismissively) No.

George: Then why am I sweating?

Derek: Because you're pacing.

George: My pulse is rapid.

Derek: Because you're still pacing.

George: (puts hand to his forehead) Feel me.

Derek: No, I'm not gonna feel you.

George: Seriously.

Derek: Seriously, no.

George: You know what? You're an ass. You've lived! You've done things. And you've got the hair. And the hot wife, and the beautiful ex-mistress who's pining for you...

Derek: She's pining for me?

George: You've lived! If you die, who cares... If I die, what? This is IT? Callie told me she loved me, I just sat there. I wasn't ready, but now I'm gonna die, and I'll never get the chance to say I love you back.

Derek: Do you? Do you love her?

George: Maybe. Eventually, I could. One day...soonish...

Derek: Soonish. I will love you soonish? [laughs]

Cristina: Don't ever die.

Burke: I'll do my best.

Derek: [to Meredith] I’m in love with you. I’ve been in love you with you forever. I’m a little late- I know I’m a little late in telling you that. I just, I just want you take your time. Take all the time you need because you have a choice to make. And when I had a choice to make…I chose wrong.

Meredith: [voiceover] Time flies. Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go. Time.