50 Grey's Quotes That'll Get You Emotionally Prepared For Thursday's Premiere

“Okay, here it is, your choice...it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek, I love you, in a really, really big 'pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window', unfortunate way that makes me hate…”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Lexie: [voiceover] Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone. Mark: It isn’t just death we have to grieve. It’s life. It’s loss. It’s change. Alex: And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is…”

— Krista Vernoff, imdb.com

“You didn't love her! You just didn't want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she was good for your ego. Or, or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn't love her, because you don't destroy the person that you love!”

— Allan Heinberg, Dr. Callie Torres, Sara Ramirez, imdb.com

“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’r…”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“We’ve all done things we weren’t proud of. I understand that. I know nobody’s perfect, but how do you live with it? How do you get up every morning knowing you could have done better, that you should have done better? Is being sorry enough? Can an apology actually heal our wounds? Ease our pain? Can…”

— Stacy McKee, Dr. Callie Torres, Sara Ramirez, amazon.com

“The first time I kissed my wife, she wasn't my wife then, she was just this girl in a bar. But when we kissed, it was like, I gotta tell you, it was like I'd never kissed any other woman before. It was like my first kiss. The right kiss.”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Derek Shepherd, Patrick Dempsey, imdb.com

“People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret road maps of their personal histories, diagrams of all of their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them, don’t. Some wounds, we carry with us everywhere… and though the cut is long g…”

— Debora Cahn, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling, not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we can step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Cristina Yang, Sandra Oh, amazon.com

“Change…We don’t like it, we fear it. But we can’t stop it from coming. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. It hurts to grow. Anybody who tells you it doesn’t, is lying. But here’s the truth: Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes, c…”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you're there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurtin…”

— Debora Cahn, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Oh, screw beautiful. I'm brilliant. If you want to appease me, compliment my brain.”

— Peter Nowak, Dr. Cristina Yang, Sandra Oh, imdb.com

“At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross.”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He's very dreamy but he's not the sun, you are.”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Cristina Yang, Sandra Oh, imdb.com

“You're letting her think you're emotionally available. You're letting her think she has a chance. And there is nothing worse in the world than thinking you have a chance when you really don't.”

— James D. Parriott, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers, you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect it. Hits way be…”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, stop accepting crap and demand something more.”

— Stacy McKee, Dr. Cristina Yang, Sandra Oh, imdb.com

“They say death is hardest on the living. It’s tough to actually say goodbye. Sometimes it’s impossible. You never really stop feeling the loss. It’s what makes things so bitter sweet. We leave little bits of ourselves behind, little reminders. A lifetime of memories, photos, trinkets. Things to reme…”

— Stacy McKee, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“No one’s ever believed in me like this. You believe in me more than I do and I need that. I’m gonna die here without that.”

— Cristina Yang, amazon.com

“The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then there are the choices that matter. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. To fight not to give in. To live or die. Live or die. That's the important choice. And it's not always in our hands.”

— Derek Shepherd, amazon.com

“If you aren't willing to keep looking for light in the darkest of places without stopping, even when it seems impossible, you will never succeed.”

— Amelia Shepherd, amazon.com

“Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.”

— Meredith Grey, amazon.com

“A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off,…”

— Meredith Grey, amazon.com

“At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now.…”

— Meredith Grey, amazon.com

“You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Toot…”

— Meredith Grey, amazon.com

“I can't think of a single reason why I should be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose... there are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game, and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away.…”

— Meredith Grey, amazon.com

“You can build a house out of anything. Make it as strong as you want. But a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with. And people can be broken, sure, but any surgeon knows, what's broken can be mended. What's hurt can be healed. That no matter how dark it…”

— Meredith Grey, amazon.com

“We lose those battles as often as we succeed. The key, though, win or lose, is to never fail. And the only way to fail is not to fight. So fight until you can't fight anymore. Never let go. Never give up. Never run. Never surrender. Fight the good fight, you fight even when it seems inevitable you'r…”

— Amelia Shepherd, amazon.com

“If you love someone, you tell them. Even if you're scared that it's not the right thing. Even if you're scared that it'll cause problems. Even if you're scared that it will burn your life to the ground, you say it, and you say it loud and you go from there.”

— Dr. Mark Sloan, amazon.com

“Just when we think we figured things out, the universe throws us a curveball. So, we have to improvise. We find happiness in unexpected places. We find ourselves back to the things that matter the most. The universe is funny that way. Sometimes it just has a way of making sure we wind up exactly whe…”

— Meredith Grey, amazon.com