Quotes from Grey's Anatomy (from my fb account)

It's Easier to be Alone...  

There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone, because what if you learn that you need love and you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This? It could go on forever.

                              -Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy Season 7 Episode 22 "Unaccompanied Minor"

Adrift and at Peace

The first 24 hours after surgery are critical, every breath you take, every fluid you make, is meticulously recorded and analyzed, celebrated, and mourned. But what about the next 24 hours? What happens when that first day turns to two, and weeks turn into months? What happens when the immediate danger has passed, when the machines are disconnected, and the teams of doctors and nurses are gone? Surgery is when you get saved, but post-op, after surgery, is when you heal. But, what if you don't?

The goal of any surgery is total recovery, to come out better than you were before. Some patients heal quickly and feel immediate relief, for others, the healing happens gradually and it's not until months or even years later that you realize you don't hurt anymore. So the challenge after any surgery is to be patient. But if you can make it through the first weeks and months, if you believe the feeling is possible, then you can get your life back...but that's a big IF.

                          -Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy Season 7 Episode 10 "Adrift and at Peace"

With You I'm Born Again

Every seven years, like snakes in our own way, we shed our skin... biologically we're brand new people. We may look the same, we probably do... but change isn't visible, at least not most of us. But we're all changed completely, forever...

When we say things like "People don't change", it drives scientists crazy because change is LITERALLY the only constant in all of science. Energy, matter, it's always changing... morphing, merging, growing, dying... it's the way people try NOT to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting to be what they are, the way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones, the way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication -- that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change, that's up to us... it can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it... it can feel like pure adrenaline, like at any moment we can have another chance at life, like at any moment... we can be born all over again.

                        - Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy Season 7 Episode 1 "With You I'm Born Again"