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Meredith: [voiceover] A patient's history is as important as their symptoms. It's what helps us decide if heart burn's a heart attack... if a head ache's a tumor. Sometimes patients will try to re-write their own histories. They'll claim they don't smoke, or forget to mention certain drugs... which in surgery can be the kiss of death. We can ignore it all we want, but our history eventually always comes back to haunt us.

Derek: I came here to be chief, but Meredith complicates that.

Izzie: [to George] You don't have to keep avoiding me.

George: Yeah I do, until this thing blows over, I do. [to people in the clinic] Havier Jugerreo? Havier Jugerreo?

Izzie: Blows over? What does that even mean?

George: When Meredith and I uh, eventually it blew over, the past.

Izzie: You mean the sad sex? The sad, tragic, depression-inducing sex you had with Meredith is the same as what we-

George: I can't. Back off. Just for now..back off.

Izzie: [to Bailey] I have an eleven year old daughter, and she needs a bone marrow transplant. I'm potentially a good match. Please don't tell anyone, please. This isn't a chapter in my history I want everyone to know about.

Bailey: I understand.

Cristina:[to Meredith about Marlow] I need to force him into the defensive..Take his queen. [Meredith gives her a skeptical look] You've never played chess?

Meredith: I'm not a geek!

Cristina: I've gotta crush him. Annihilate him at his own game.

Alex: [to Meredith] You may be confused since you were basically raised by wolves, but this is what mothers do. They stop by, they stock the fridge..Hey dude, you think she might do our laundry?

Meredith: Hey! Get your own fake mom.

Mark: [to the Chief] There´s no need to be embarrassed. It´s time to shake off the rust and get back in the game. I'll be your wingman.

Chief: I have nothing to say.

Mark: We´d make a great team.

Meredith: You've got stuff on your hands.

Cristina: I'm trying to scare away cardio-god.

Meredith: With pretty, pretty fingers?

Chief: [to Mark] You think that if you get me laid, I'll let you become chief.

Izzie: I can say "Hail Mary's" until-until I turn into Mary, but I still miss you, not the sex. It was not tragic, George. But I will live without it but I won't make it if you can't be my friend.

Meredith: [voiceover] Some people believe that without history, our lives amount to nothing. At some point we all have to choose: do we fall back on what we know, or do we step forward to something new? It's hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us... what guides us. Our history resurfaces time after time after time. So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today.