EXPLORE All The Shades of Grey

Meredith: [voiceover]:The dream is this - that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals -find the guy, finish our internship, that's the dream. Then we get there. And if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else. Because, if this is the dream, then we'd like to wake up...now please.

Jackson: Never talk about your penis when you hug another man.

Jackson: [in answer to whether or not a husband with sexual problems "still likes sex"] He's a guy and he's not dead. I'm guessing yes.

Callie: Oh hi.

Cristina: Hello.

Callie: Some one have bones that need resetting?

Cristina: [mumbles something]

Callie: Excuse me?

Cristina [forced]: Bridesmaids...my mother and Burke's mother have been talking on the phone and now, they are here, with me.

Cristina's mom: To plan the wedding.

Burke's mom: Cristina led us to believe that you're friends.

[Callie laughs but quickly realizes that they are serious]

Callie: ...Okay, I guess.

[Cristina's mom goes to measure under Callie's arms with a tape measure]

Callie: Oh wow...wait

[Cristina laughs]

Callie: What are you...are you? You're actually asking me...

Cristina: To be my bridesmaid, yeah.

Meredith: When I drowned, it was different for you than it was for me. Something happened to me, and I really don't know how to explain it without sounding like....I just feel different - I wanna be better at everything, and I wanna let you in. I swear.

Derek: Did you practice that?

[Both laugh]

Meredith: With hand gestures, but I dropped those. Just, now is not the time to give up on me, ok? That's what I'm saying.

Derek: Ok.

Meredith: Ok?

Derek: Yes.

Addison: You work with your ex-husband in a shrine for your ex-husband.

Naomi: It’s actually a good book. And we're friends. And we stayed friends after we divorced. It’s very healthy. We're healthy.

Addison: What happened between you and Sam?

Naomi: Addison – you and I were close in med school, but it was a long time ago.

Addison: Oh- Naomi. Come on – you can’t stay mad at me forever. I know you.

Naomi: You got fat.

Addison: I did not!

Naomi: Your hair is hideous.

Addison: It is not!

Naomi: And you're getting really, really ugly.

Addison: Aww-I missed you too.

[Addison slaps Sam's head]

Sam: Ow!

Addison: Idiot – you divorced Naomi?

Sam: Just mind your own business.

Addison: [slaps Sam's head again]

Sam: Ouch!

Addison: Moron. She’s my best friend.

Sam: Stop hitting me on top of my head.

Addison: Did you cheat? [goes in to hit Sam again]

Sam: Okay. [catches her hand] Two things I learned back in kindergarten. One – keep your hands to yourself. Two – he who smelt it, dealt it.

Addison: That makes no sense.

Sam: Yeah…well – you cheated…you cheated on your husband with his best friend. There. Smelt it, dealt it. It works.

Addison: You're using fart logic!

Sam: Hey...you want details, go see Naomi.

Addison: She won't talk about it.

Sam: Ah...Then you get no details.

Addison: I'm on your side, you know that?

Sam: That's why you get no details.

Addison: [puts her fists on the desk] DETAILS.

Sam: Woman, be quiet...

[Both grin]

Addison: I even missed you.

Addison: It's just, where I come from elevators tend to be this kind of aphrodisiac, you know? People get on them and they just get all horny.

Mark: Go ahead. I would love to have an excuse to lay you out.

Alex: I didn't do anything.

Mark: Whatever you didn't do, sent Addison running through the hills.

Naomi: There is no fertility potential here.

Addison: [laughs sarcastically] Ahh. Ok, this is good. This is ahm, this is just...perfect.

Naomi: Addison.

Addison: I have a great guy, I don't have a baby, because I'm focusing on my career. Then I have the other guy and I don't have his baby because he's not the great guy. And now I don't have the great guy or the other guy and I'm finally ready to have a baby but I can't. That is so... exactly what my life is.

Naomi: Addie, there are other options.

Addison: Yeah, I know about the options.

Naomi: I'm so sorry. I know how much you wanted this.

Addison: It's okay. I just, ahm...I just didn't realize that I was out of time.

Violet: What’s the matter, Cooper?

Cooper: I don’t go to hookers, I don’t go to strip clubs. I meet women on the internet, who want to meet me. So I like them a little younger and a little dirtier. Is that wrong?

[Naomi & Violet just stare at him]

Cooper: It's wrong?

Naomi: You need to meet a grown up. You need to date someone your own age.

Violet: Someone without a porny internet name and perhaps no criminal past.

Naomi: A nice girl.

Violet: A reliable girl.

Naomi: Someone who you can have a relationship with.

Violet: You’re a respected doctor.

Naomi: Go out in the real world. Meet a woman your own age and go out.

Violet: Be a man.

[Addison is sitting in a stairwell, crying]

Pete: There you are. I just stopped by to see how Lisa and the baby are doing.

Addison: [wipes her eyes]

Pete: You okay?

Addison: Yeah – I uh, had a little too much surgery today. I’m good.

Pete: You look good. You look beautiful. Sam told me I had to stay away from you because your Naomi’s friend.

Addison: Stop it.

Pete: What?

Addison: You're flirting.

Pete: What’s wrong with flirting?

Addison: What’s wrong with it? What’s wrong? What’s wrong is that I don’t have time for it. I am out of time. I missed my chance. And now I have 2 eggs left, I might as well have no eggs left. I am egg-less. Naomi says she’s dried up? I’m the one who's dried up – I’m all barren and dried up. And I’m clearly wasting my time on men. I mean I might as well take up a hobbies. Like needlepoint or collecting those ceramic dolls because that’s what dried up women do – they do needlepoint. They don’t waste there time flirting with men who clearly just want to get laid. [gets choked up] …They don’t waste their time telling overly personal information about there eggs to total strangers. Oh my god - I'm sorry.

[Addison stands up - but Pete grabs her]

Addison: What are you doing?

Pete: I’m going to kiss you. I’m going to kiss you with tongue. I’m going kiss you so you feel it. Okay?

Addison: [wipes her nose] Okay.

[they kiss]:

Addison: What was that for?

Pete: To remind you that you’re not dried up. [walks down the stairs] If you need me to remind you again - lemme know. [walks out the door]

Addison: Okay.

Meredith: [voiceover] Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.