For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can’t get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can’t cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don’t want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it’s everything.
— Karev
You were like coming up for fresh air. It’s like I was drowning and you saved me. It’s all I know.
— Derek Shepherd
Denial. It’s not just a river in Egypt. It’s a freakin’ ocean.
— Grey’s Anatomy (via havemeyourway)
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 below the belt and doesn’t let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can’t outrun it and life always makes more.
— Meredith Grey
Do you know when to walk away? Do you know when not to take less than you deserve?
— Jane Burke
I know I’m not a lot of things that you’ve gone for in the past - I know, but I would never leave you. I would never hurt you. And I will never stop loving you…
— O’Malley
I’ve heard that it’s possible to grow up - I’ve just never met anyone who’s actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don’t go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope…
— Meredith Grey
I know it’s not perfect, but it’s life. Life is messy sometimes.
— Mr. Levangie, Season 1
I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you’ve crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don’t know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.
— Meredith Grey
