1. “Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then look around. Drink it in, ’cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.” ― Meredith Grey
2. “She’s my person. If I murdered someone, she’s the person I’d call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor. She’s my person.”—Cristina Yang
3. “Knowing is better than wondering. Waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying.” ― Meredith Grey
4. “Bad things happen, but you have to move past it. Leave it behind. The sooner, the better. Or it’ll eat away at you and stop you from moving forward.” ― Miranda Bailey
5. “Promise that you’ll love me, even when you hate me.” ― Meredith Grey
6. “You were like coming up for fresh air. It’s like I was drowning and you saved me. That’s all I know.” ― Derek Shepherd
7. “There comes a point when you have to suck it up and stop whining and start living.” ― Callie Torres
8. “Every kiss before the right kiss doesn’t count anyway.” ― Derek Shepherd
9. “It’s a beautiful day to save lives.” ― Derek Shepherd
10. “I want so much for you. For both of us. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free.” ― Callie Torres
11. “This is the way the world changes. Good people, raising babies right.” ― Catherine Avery
12. “Please don’t give up on me. Promise. Promise me you won’t.” ― Arizona Robbins
13. “You can have the worst crap in the world happen to you and you can get over it. All you gotta do is survive.” ― Alex Karev
14. “Yes, horrible things do happen. Happiness, in the face of all of that, that’s not the goal. Feeling horrible, and knowing that you’re not gonna die from those feelings, that’s the point.” ― Katherine Wyatt
15. “Don’t let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice so use it. Speak up. Raise your hands. Shout your answers. Make yourself heard. Whatever it takes, just find your voice, and when you do, fill the damn silence.” ― Meredith Grey
16. “We don’t get unlimited chances to have the things that we want, and this I know. Nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could have changed your life.” ― Addison Montgomery
17. “Deal with your jealousy. Deal with your shortcomings. Don’t put your crap on me.” ― Stephanie Edwards
18. “Just because people do horrible things, it doesn’t always mean they’re horrible people.” ― Izzie Stevens
19. “The future is the home of our deepest fears and our wildest hopes.”—Owen Hunt
20. “Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things.” ― Cristina Yang
21. “I love everything about you. Even the things I don’t like, I love. And I want you with me. I love you and I think you love me too. Do you?” —Jackson Avery
22. “So you fight. Until you can’t fight anymore.” ― Amelia Shepherd
23. “The problem is we are human. We want more than to just survive. We want to love.” ― Lexie Grey
24. “It turns out sometimes you have to do the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they’re the only way to find out who we really are.” ― Denny Duquette
25. “Don’t analyze everything. Just do it.” ― Alex Karev
26. “Sometimes it’s good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose.” ― Richard Webber
27. “Breakthroughs don’t happen because of the medicine. Real breakthroughs happen because someone is scared to death to stop trying.” ― Derek Shepherd
28. “Sometimes you have to be a shark.” ― Lucy Fields
29. “Intimacy is a four letter syllable for, here’s my heart and soul, please grind them into a hamburger and enjoy. It’s both desired and feared. Difficult to live with, impossible to live without.” ― Meredith Grey
30. “Not everyone has to be happy all the time. That isn’t mental health. That’s crap.” ― Meredith Grey
31. “How are you fine? How are you just completely fine? I am ruined, OK? I am dead, I am wrecked.” ― Cristina Yang
32. “You have to go back to the beginning to understand the end.” ― Teddy Altman
33. “The expected is what keeps us steady. It’s the unexpected that changes our lives forever.” ― Meredith Grey
34. “You never think that the last time is the last time. You think there will be more. You think you have forever, but you don’t.” ― Meredith Grey
35. “Don’t ever date a man who can’t handle your power.”—Meredith Grey
36. “Don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need. He’s very dreamy, but he’s not the sun. You are.” ― Cristina Yang
37. “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
