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    Meredith: [voiceover] We all remember the bed time stories of our childhood. The shoe fit Cinderella, the frog was turned into a prince, sleeping beauty was awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales. The stuff of dreams. the problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories. The ones that start in dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. The nightmares always seem to become the reality.

    Meredith: [voiceover] Once upon a time, happier ever after. The stories we tell are the stuff of dreams. Fairy tales don't come true. Reality is much stormier. Much murkier. Much scarier. Reality it’s so much more interesting than living happily ever after.

    Cristina: I think you and Derek will make it. You will make it work. I'm your person. I'm on your side.

    Richard: We're sloppy, just like everybody else. We've been resting on our laurels. You have all been failing. Failing to take initiative. Failing to ask tough questions. Failing to practice your skills. Failing to give opportunity TO practice skills. And I let it happen. So you have not failed. We have failed. Well, it stops, and it stops now.

    Patient: Hello? Someone there? Where am I?
    Alex: You're in a spaceship, you're going to the moon. Enjoy the ride
    Patient: ..a spaceship.. Excuse me?

    Cristina: [after Owen Hunt kisses her] I... I don't even know you.
    Owen Hunt: So?

    Miranda: I have a dream, Yang... That one day a trauma, will come through these doors.... I have a dream.
    Cristina: I share that dream.

    Meredith: Okay, I built the house of candles, that is unprecedented in the Meredith chronicles.
    Derek: Fine, lets move in together.
    Meredith: Fine.
    Derek: Unless of course you just wanna go ahead and get married .... AHA! Gotcha! You wanna know where I learned that? It goes with the story of how I cut my hand.

    Meredith:And then you know what's gonna happen after he moves in don't you? We build a house on his land, which will be OUR land because we'll be married. And then I'll be Dr. Mrs. Shepherd. And you know what comes after that don't you? Babies. They'll be his babies so they'll have perfect hair, and they'll be chatty. So I'll have five chatty children, a chatty husband, and live in a house in the wilderness. And then I'll start sleeping with your husband. I gotta tell him I've changed my mind. Don't you think?
    Cristina: MEREDITH!