EXPLORE All The Shades of Grey

Meredith: [voiceover] No one believes that their life will turn out just kind of okay. We all think we are going to be great. And from the day we decide to be surgeons, we are filled with expectation. Expectations of the trails we will blaze, the people we will help, the difference we will make. Great expectations of who we will be, where we will go. And then we get there.

Burke: Meredith. Would you like seconds?

Meredith: Maybe Cristina would like some. [to Cristina] Cristina, would you like some?

Burke: I only made enough for three.

Meredith: You just said there were seconds.

Derek: This isn't at all awkward.

Meredith: You know, we can go and you two can talk.

Burke and Cristina: We're talking!

Meredith: To each other. [to Burke] You're enjoying your meal at the International House of Silence. Burke, you have to feed Cristina. She doesn't cook and she will starve to death.

Cristina: I have cereal!

[Izzie knocks on George's bedroom door]

Izzie: George, can I come in? I made you some cookies and brownies and muffins, of course, I always make muffins.

Callie: [comes out from room] Thank God you're here. I can't take it anymore. Three times already tonight, and he's getting ready for a fourth.

Izzie: What are you talking about? Oh. Oh, eew.

Callie: No, no I get it, you're crying, you're depressed and I know we all deal in different ways, but this is not grieving, this is my legs being bent in ways my legs do not go. A-And I know, I know his dad died, and I get it, I feel horrible for him.

Izzie: [laughs] I can give you guys some privacy, I can go far far away...

Callie: [cuts her off, whispers] No no! No! No! You stay. You take over for me, okay?

Izzie: Callie Torres!

Callie: No! I don't- Not like that, I mean. I am giving him to you. You are now officially on George Watch 2007, OK, you are his friend. Yay! And I need a break. I need to heal. I need to heal.

Izzie: No! No! What am I supposed to do?

Callie: I need to heal. I need to heal. Please, I need to heal.

George: Callie?

Callie: [after she and Izzie both freeze at George's call] Thank you, goodbye. [flees]

Izzie: No, Callie!

George: [coming out from room, naked] What is taking you so- [Izzie stares at George and he realizes, and hides behind the door] Oh!

Izzie: [averts her eyes and stifling a smile] Er- s-she had to go. Are you hungry?

George: Why are you trying to make this about you...?

Izzie: It's not about me! It's about me wanting to talk to you about you needing so much sex your girlfriends vagina's broken.

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Izzie: Last I heard, perpetual sex was not one of the five stages of grief, but denial is.

George: You shouldn't be listening at other people's doors.

Izzie: You were in the hallway naked. I saw you.

George: I blocked that out.

Izzie: Denial.

Bailey: You didn't think of maybe telling me this morning that you were planning to step down instead of sending me on this wild goose chase?

Chief: Dr. Bailey. You need those clowns to sign off on your proposal because one of them may be Chief of Surgery in a month. It's hard to imagine, for me more than anyone, but since you're not ready for the job, one of them has got to do it for the next few years.

Bailey: Me?!

Chief: It's you that's going to be Chief eventually. That's who you are. But you're gonna have to get a new chair because you're short. You have short legs, but someday you are going to be Chief of Surgery. I wasn't sending you on a wild goose chase, I was trying to get you in a habit of doing things without me.

Addison: Mark Sloan, Chief of Surgery. I just vomited a little in my mouth.

Derek: I was a jerk. Sometimes boyfriends can be jerks, but it doesn't mean you stop talking to them... You get that I'm saying I'm sorry, right?

Meredith: You yelled at me for no reason, and then you walked away. And now you show up here.

Derek: Of course I showed up. Why wouldn't I? You don't trust me?

Meredith: I do.

Derek: Ok, well this is how it works. You fight sometimes and somebody apologizes.

Meredith: Well, how am I supposed to know that?

Derek: You've never done this before.

Meredith: No, I've never done this before.

Derek: Hmm. Okay, all right. Well, this is- From now on, you can expect that I'm gonna show up. Even if I yell. Even if you yell. I'm always gonna show up. Okay?

Meredith: [smiling] Okay.

Cristina: I was right. I swear I really believe what I did was right. I don't want you to forgive me. Frankly, I'd find it patronizing if you did. Because... while I know I was right, you think I'm wrong. Which doesn't matter...because... I'm in this. I'm in this for the long haul. And I'm in this to finish the race. So if that means I don't win this one, then fine. I don't win. You win. I'm talking. See? I'm talking first. You win.

Burke: Marry me. Marry me, Cristina Yang.

George: I don't want to waste another minute.

Callie: I can't have sex with you again, George. Ok? I can't- I just- I- Enough with the sex.

George: Since my dad died, I feel like someone ripped out my stomach, filled the hole with asphalt. I laugh everytime I remember I'm never going to talk to him again because it just sounds like the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I can't believe it's real. But everytime I look at you- I feel better. It shocks me. It knocks my wind out, but it's true. I don't have to have sex with you, I'd be happy just look at you from across the room. And even that, anything, any piece of you. And, hopefully, all of you... that'd be the best thing. Because I love you.

Callie: George.

George: [gets on one knee] Marry me? Will you marry me?

Meredith: [voiceover] We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.