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Meredith: [voiceover] Surgeons usually fantasize about wild and improbable surgeries. Someone collapses in a restaurant, you splice them open with a butter knife, replace a valve with a hollowed out stick of carrot-- but every now and then some other kind of fantasy slips in. Most of our fantasies resolve when we wake, vanished to the back of our mind, but sometimes we're sure if we try hard enough-- we can live the dream.

Cristina: You had a dream about the both of them. Threesome? Nice. Just when I think you're boring, you rise.

Meredith: I'm dating. And it comes with snacks.

Cristina: [about Burke] I'm knee deep in coffee, and he's on the sofa playing with himself. And not in a good way.

Cristina: [about Meredith] I can't believe this! She has two dates and I have a wife.

Alex: Hey, you’re a loser. You like comic books, right?

George: No... [nods his head, behind Christina's back, and mouths "Yes"]

Alex: I got this kid, this patient. She thinks she’s a superhero. What’s up with that?

George: Superhero? Well, superheroes look like anyone, like you or me. Maybe they’re not someone that people necessarily notice as extraordinary. Maybe in their daily life they get walked on. But then, there’s a moment they get hit by a cosmic ray or bitten by a radioactive spider, and then suddenly something that has been inside them all this times comes raging out -

Alex: Dude, forget I asked.

Izzie: I hate the bride thing. I hate the pictures in the magazines of the girl with the veil...and the flowers that she's sniffing. Like it never occurred to her to put her nose in there until there was a camera pointed at her. I hate the idea of bridesmaids...and the colors...and does the bustle make my ass look bigger or smaller. I hate the whole thing and I never wanted to be that girl. That girl is stupid... and shallow. So why the hell is that girl's thoughts running through my head?

George: Izzie…

Izzie: I’m going to do it, George. I’m going to walk through those doors. I just need to make sure that when I’m standing in front of the chief of surgery, I am not thinking about my wedding dress. And that’s gonna take a minute.

Alex: We got half the hospital lookin’ for you. Your powers of invisibility are well intact. Get up.

Megan: You’re a hosebag, you know that?

Alex: And you have a potty mouth.

Megan: Nobody’s cutting me open.

Alex: It’s surgery, we do it all the time. In fact, it’s all we do.

Megan: You can’t keep telling my foster parents I’m defective. They can’t afford surgery. It’s too expensive.

Alex: They can handle it.

Megan: They’ll send me back!

Alex: Dude, that’s stupid. They got their own personal superhero. Nobody sends back a superhero.

Megan: I thought you said I didn’t have superpowers?

Alex: Yeah, well, you don’t. But take away Green Lantern’s ring, guy’s still a superhero, right?

Bailey: [operating on Megan] Look at this. Everybody wants a life without pain. What does it get you? She needs to be on a poster somewhere, to remind people pain’s there for a reason.

Meredith: Enough! This is NOT dating. I want moonlight, and flowers, and candy and people trying to feel me up. Nobody is trying to feel me up. Nobody is even looking at me. I'm an intern, do the two of you have any idea how much effort it takes to do all this? I am waxed and plucked and I have a clean top on. And the two of you are looking at each other.

Derek: Meredith.....

Meredith: No, my fantasy is not two men looking at each other.

Finn: We didn't....

Meredith: No talking until one of you figures out how to put on a date. I want heat! I want romance! Damn it, I want to feel like a freaking lady!

Meredith: [voiceover] The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good, and twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad, and no pain is better. But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something, and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.