Grey's Anatomy Season 2 Episode 11

Meredith: I can't believe you would consider moving out of your trailer. The view alone.
Derek (nods): See the mist rising off the lake.
Meredith: Yeah.
Derek: Yeah. (pauses) I'm not moving.
Meredith: You're still you?
Derek: I'm still me.
Meredith: Good.

Meredith: Hey, Iz.
Izzie: Okay, really? You think I'm talking to you?
Meredith: Well, I just wanted to say I'm sorry.
Izzie: What are you sorry for? (Meredith is silent) When Derek broke up with you I never once said you're better off without him. It's not supportive, it's condescending. I was there. All I ever am is there for you guys and the one time I need you ... Just go away Meredith.

Addison: Remember what you did to me? When I was an intern?
Richard: How could I forget? You didn't speak to me for almost a year. (Addison is silent looking away) But you learned.
Addison: Yeah, well, I think I gotta do that to Izzie Stevens.
Richard: Well she's smart, hard working. (gives Addison a look) Gets a little too involved with her patients. A lot like you.
Addison: I know. Took me a long time to recover from that, Richard.
Richard: But it made you a better surgeon, Addison. (Addison nods) The question is, is she talented enough a surgeon to make the lesson worth it?
Addison: She's the best I've seen in years. I was hoping that we'd ...
Richard (interrupts): You're not here to make friends Addison. You're here to make surgeons. (Addison nods looking down) Being a teacher can be a lonely business.

Meredith: You've been lyin' low.
Alex: Well nobody's talking to me so it makes it kind of easier, right?
Meredith (pulls up a chair and sits next to him): I'm talking to you. In short mono-syllabic sentences laced with disdain and contempt.
Alex: So according to girl rules, now you all hate me?
Meredith: I don't hate you. If my mother hadn't gotten Alzheimer's I'd probably be you.
Alex: Well, really?
Meredith: Really. Before she got sick, I mean, I finished college but I was partying way too much and staying out way too late to keep a job. I was the one at family reunions everybody was embarrassed to talk about.
Alex: So, that's what you think of me?
Meredith: Are you okay?
Alex: I almost killed a guy yesterday.
Meredith: Mr. Martin.
Alex: So I'm just trying to find anything I can to help him.
Meredith (grabs the book from him): Well, okay, what're we looking for?
Alex: Ah anything on central pontine mitral license. (they start going through the books. Izzie walks by them, they look up at her. She turns around, and glares at Meredith as if to say 'How could you')
Izzie: Unbelievable. (Alex half chuckles at the situation. Meredith gives him the books back and sighs. Alex sighs looking low. Meredith follows Izzie)
Meredith: Izzie, come on!
Izzie (angry): Come on, Come on?! You're fraternizing with the enemy and you tell me to come on?
Meredith: Alex and I are sort of friends.
Izzie (stops walking and faces her): Since when? Since when are you and Alex friends? You tell me to cut my losses. That I'm better off without him and as soon as I turn my back ... (turns and walks away again, Meredith follows)
Meredith: Izzie, you're making way too big a deal out of it.
Izzie: Right of course, since I'm the unreasonable one. You know what Meredith do whatever you want. Sleep with the guy for all I care.
Meredith: Well obviously I'm not going to sleep with him Izzie.
Izzie: Well, why not? You've slept with everyone else. (Meredith stops following her, gets a look on her face and walks the other way)

Olivia: You had no right to speak to me that way in front of a patient.
George: Yeah, well you hurt my friend.
Olivia: I had no idea Alex was seeing Izzie. That's not what you're upset about.
George: You have no idea why I'm upset. Besides you know what I don't understand is why Alex? (he turns to face her) And why again?
Olivia: People get lonely, George.

Bailey (to one of the quints): How you doing', you? You know I'm having' a baby too. (put on a baby voice) Yes I am! A little boy! Maybe you could meet him someday! How's that sound, does that sound good? (Cristina walks in and stares) Pregnancy has not made me soft. I haven't gone soft. I don't do soft.
Cristina: Of course not. Just talking to a patient.

Cristina: Oh, does anyone have any decent food?
George: You should really eat breakfast.
Cristina: God, you sound like Burke. You know sometimes I think we would be better off with dogs.
Meredith: Preaching to the choir! I'm over men.
George: Real nice. You know a dog is not a replacement for a human being.

George: I have the best quint. Lucy, she just smiled at me.
Izzie: She's nine hours old, George.
George: I'm saying there are 5 babies here and clearly mine is the best one.
Meredith: Charlotte's smart. She's got wrinkles on her forehead, very serious.
Izzie: Okay, A. This is not a competition and B. my quint kicks your quints' asses. Emily is strong, she won't let go of my finger.
Cristina: Ah, hey! Julie has her organs on the outside of her body and she's still alive thank you.

Meredith (opening voiceover): Forty years ago, the Beatles asked the world a simple question: they wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely, the surgical wing of hospitals. As surgeons, we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that, at the end of the day, all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.

Cristina: Unbelievable, who would do this to themselves?
Bailey: The woman wasn't just in prison, Yang, she was in solitary.
Cristina: She's seriously deranged.
Bailey: You try spending a month locked in a room with no windows, no one to talk to, 23 hours a day, see how deranged she is then.
Cristina: Dr. Bailey, she's a murderer.
Bailey: I didn't say she wasn't. 1, 2, 3. I said try to having no one to make your snarky comments to for a solid month. My guess is you'd swallow the entire razor.

Olivia: I still get a little squeamish around leeches.
George (straight-faced): That's not what I heard

Meredith: So you're giving up the trailer?
Derek: I'm not giving up the trailer, is Addison telling people that I'm giving up the trailer?
Meredith: It's just funny, I just would never have pegged you for "that guy".
Derek: What guy?
Meredith: You know, the "marble bath, private pool, gated community" guy.
Derek: Don't peg me, I'm not peggable.
Meredith: You're pegged, deal with it.
(later)
Derek: I'm not giving up the trailer.
Meredith (smiling): Whatever you say, Dr. Shepherd.

Izzie (about Alex): I'm telling you, Meredith was all over him.
Cristina: Seriously, she was all over him? What, like mounting him, with all the babies watching? Seriously?
Izzie: Well, she would have been if I hadn't interrupted.
George: She was talking to him.
Izzie: You don't talk to bastards who cheat on their girlfriends, George. That's the rule.
George: You weren't officially his girlfriend.
Izzie: That's not the point.
George: It is kind of the point. You don't see me getting all emotional over people I'm not dating.
Izzie: Really?! You want to go there?! (ominous looks all around)
George: No.
Izzie: I'm having a moment here. Don't mess with me.
Cristina: You're not gonna have a nervous breakdown and kill yourself are you?
Izzie: No.
Cristina: So there's no chance you'll kill us? (Izzie storms off)
George: Oh, that was wrong on so many levels.
Cristina: And so good.
George: That was. That was good. (Cristina laughs)

Cristina: Why'd you kill three people?
Constance: Start off with a little small talk why don't ya.

(Cristina kicks Izzie so she wakes up)
Cristina: Hell hath no fury like a girl whose non-boyfriend screws a nurse.
Izzie: Bitch.
Cristina (smiles): I like you bitter and pissed off, you're almost like a normal person now.

Addison: You live in a glorified camper.
Derek: It's 40 acres of some of the most beautiful land in Seattle.
Addison: I don't give up a Cental Park brownstone to come and live in the forest.
Derek: Addy, our house in the Hamptons had trees, you didn't mind those trees, did you?
Addison: They were the Hamptons!
Derek: Why are you pointing at me like that?

Izzie (about Alex): He is unbelievable! I'm so glad I never slept with him. Which is his loss, because I'm really good in bed. Mind blowing, mind blowingly good in bed.
Cristina: Are you trying to seduce us?
Izzie: And he sleeps with Olivia, instead of me. Olivia?!
George: Hey, I slept with Olivia.
Izzie: Well, then you both have bad taste.
George: You know, you can't say that you weren't warned. Alex has always been Alex.
Meredith: You dodged a bullet, Iz. You're better off without him.
Cristina: Why are you even surprised? You sleep with a snake, you get bit.
Izzie (upset): Thanks, guys... for the support.

Meredith (closing voiceover): Four hundred years ago, another well-known English guy had an opinion on being alone. John Donne. He thought we were never alone. Of course it it was fancier when he said it. "No man is an island entire unto himself." Boil down that island talk, and he just meant that all anyone needs is someone to step in and let us know we're not alone. And who's to say that someone can't have four legs. Someone to play with, or run around with, or just hang out.