𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢, 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘺 - 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙮'𝙨 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙮 (ON HOLD)

twenty-eight - "surgical board" - twenty-eight

"We all get at least one good wish in a year over the candles on our birthday. Some of us throw in more, on eyelashes, fountains, lucky stars. And every now and then, one of those wishes come true. So what then? Is it as good as we hoped? Do we bask in the warm glow of our happiness or do we just notice we've got a long list of other wishes waiting to be wished. We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach. We wish because we need help and we're scared and we know we may be asking too much. We still wished though because sometimes they come true."
-Meredith Grey, S5E11, "Wish You Were Here"

"My mother used to say this about residency, "It takes a year to learn how to cut. It takes a lifetime to learn not to." Of all of the tools on the surgical tray, sound judgment is the trickiest one to master. And without it, we're all just toddlers running around with ten blades. We're human. We make mistakes. We mis-estimate. We call it wrong. But when a surgeon makes a bad judgment call, it's not as simple. People get hurt. They bleed. So we struggle over every stitch. We agonize over every suture because the snap judgments, the ones that come to us quickly and easily without hesitation, they're the one that haunt us forever."
-Meredith Grey, S5E12, "Sympathy For The Devil"

"I believe in heaven. I also believe in hell. I've never seen either, but I believe they exist. They have to exist because without a heaven, without a hell, we're all just headed for limbo. Heaven, hell, limbo, no one really knows where we're going or what's waiting for us when we get there. But the one thing we can say for sure, with absolute certainty, that's there are moments that take us to another place, moments of heaven on earth. And maybe for now, that's all we need to know."
-Meredith Grey, S5E13, "Stairway to Heaven"

"Bad day, Dr. Bailey?" Anna asked, slouched down at the nurses station, bored out of her mind.

"Very bad day." Dr. Bailey mumbled about a follow surgeon she wasn't getting along with and went through a stack of forms in front of her, "I'm surprised you're not glued to the chief's side today."

"He's busy."

"What about Meredith and all the other residents? Y'all seem to be friends."

"Busy."

"What about the intern?"

"Busy, too."

"Has your father popped in to say 'hi,' at all?" Bailey asked, hand on her hip.

"Nope." Anna sighed.

"Follow me." Dr. Bailey simply said, making Anna jump to her feet. Like 99.9% of people in this hospital, Dr. Bailey scared her too.

~ GREY'S ANATOMY ~

"I have to tell Alex about us."

"Uh, "us" us? No. That's a- that's a bad idea. That's monumentally bad."

"It's not fair. You know about him."

"Yeah and I don't like it. And if I could off him, I would. But he's the moody, broody one, whereas I am the mature and- dead."

"You're dead. I'm alive, and he's alive, and I'm happy wh- I'm with him. Don't you want me to be happy?"

"Iz, there isn't anything in the universe I want more."

"Then why can't I have you both? 'Cause that's what makes me happy."

"He's gonna think you're a whack job."

"He told me... that he loves me. That's a huge deal for him. The least I can do is be honest."

~ GREY'S ANATOMY ~