Meredith Grey

"The carousel never stops turning. You can't get off."

"Pick me, choose me, love me."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need."

"A therapeutic little heart-to-heart with your friends."

"Family is not always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs."

"Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have."

"I am my own person. I don't need saving."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Knowledge is power."

"Medicine is about taking care of the whole person."

"Time flies when you're not paying attention."

"The truth doesn't always set you free."

"I deserve to be free to make my own choices."

"There is no peace to be found in the operating room."

"There's a reason I said yes, and there's a reason I said no."

"Life is messy and complicated and you can't just fix it."

"You can't change the past, but you can change your future."

"Surgeons don't have the luxury of sentiment."

"I'm a surgeon, and that is what defines me."

"Being a surgeon isn't the only thing I am."

"Dark and twisty is who I am."

"Take your broken heart, make it into art."

"People don't change."

"I need to be the lead in my own life."

"You make my dreams come true."

"I'm trying to figure out who I am."

"You can't base your life on what ifs."

"What we need is a person to believe in us."