Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

She's Gone (2011)

Ellen Pompeo: Dr. Meredith Grey

Quotes 

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [closing voiceover]  You think that true love is the only thing that can crush your heart; that will take your life and light it up or destroy it. Then you become a mother.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [opening voiceover]  When my mother left my father, she didn't tell him she was leaving and taking me with her until wed landed to the other side of the country. In those days, it was called family troubles. Today it'd be called kidnapping.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : I think I stole a baby.

  Dr. Cristina Yang : Okay, first of all, you didn't steal the baby, she's your baby. What you did is... You took her for a nap... in a very odd location and you failed to answer your phone. But y'know, many people find all the technology in our lives to be intrusive, so you're not the first person who didn't answer your phone or your pager. You know, all we have to do is... is find a reason why you were AWOL for an hour.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Four... hours.

  [Cristina glares at her] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Janet was gonna take the baby, so I took off.

  Dr. Cristina Yang : Okay, okay. You know, people make mistakes. I mean, I almost killed Alex in the OR today, so we'll just figure it out.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : How?

  Dr. Cristina Yang : I don't know.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : No, how'd you almost kill Alex?

  Dr. Cristina Yang : With a cc of epi.

  [Meredith looks shocked] 

  Dr. Cristina Yang : Ah, you know, whatever. He'll be fine. Just uh... stay here. I'll fix this.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : What are you gonna do?

  Dr. Cristina Yang : I'm gonna fix it.

• Dr. Derek Shepherd : [to Meredith]  I still don't understand what you possibly could've been thinking.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : They fired me. Janet basically told me that they were gonna take Zola away. I mean, possibly send her back to Malawi. You and me... I just needed some time. I just needed to hold her and look at her and just think about how everything, everything got so screwed up. You should take Zola. Janet has a problem with me, not with you and we need to do everything that we can to make sure they don't take her away and if that means that you have custody of her and I don't... then, that's what we need to do.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : You're not fired. Richard's gonna take the fall for you.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : What? He can't do that. I'm not gonna let him do that.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : Yes, you will. If you wanna keep this baby, you will let him protect you.