524 "Now or Never" » All the Shades of Grey

    Meredith (opening voiceover): Doctors spend a lot of time focused on the future, planning it, working toward it. But at some point you start to realise your life is happening now. Not after med school, not after residency, right now. This is it. It’s here. Blink and you’ll miss it.

    Cristina: She just had brain surgery, an aggressive course of IL2. She needs rest.
    Alex: She needs to exercise whatever memory she’s got left before it turns to mush
    Cristina: Well she’s not going heal with you barking orders at her like a caveman.
    Alex: Butt out Yang.
    Cristina: You know she’s my patient. I don’t care if you’re her husband.
    Alex: Look, she…
    Cristina: You wanna see how fast I can get your visiting hours down to zero?
    Alex: She signed a DNR. She signed a fricking DNR and made me promise me that she’d come out of this with a life, not in a hospital bed, not with no brain. I had to promise she’d have a life. You wanna know what happens if she can’t make no new memories? Forget about being a doctor. She’s going to need round the clock baby sitters. We get an apartment together, she can’t even find her way to the damn toilet, track her on her ankle in case god forbids, she wanders out the front door.
    Cristina: Alex, you can handle this, she will get better.
    Alex: Maybe, maybe not. It’s on me. Her future is on me.

    Meredith: How’s she doing? Any better?
    Cristina: No.
    Meredith: Damn. Well I’m going city hall to go do the thing.
    Cristina: Seriously? It doesn’t seem like the day for it.
    Meredith: Look at Alex, He’s working so hard all day and she doesn’t know. And if she stays like this, she may never know how much he loves her. And that girl Amanda, she in there loving a stranger. She thinks that’s her prince charming. I mean he’s probably going to die today. Chances are. So yeah, I’m going to go get married because I think it’s important to take the time to tell the people you love how much you love them while they can hear you. I love you Cristina Yang.
    Cristina: You have changed.
    Meredith: Maybe I have. What?
    Cristina: I’m going to hug you.

    Meredith (closing voiceover): Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.