MARK: "Has anybody seen Addison?"
RICHARD: "Uh, she’s gone."
MARK: "Gone?"
RICHARD: "She took a leave of absence."

[narrating] "The dream is this - that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals - find the guy, finish our internship, that's the dream. Then we get there. And if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else. Because, if this is the dream, then we'd like to wake up. Now, please!"

MEREDITH

MEREDITH: "When I drowned, it was different for you than it was for me. Something happened to me, and I really don't know how to explain it without sounding like... I just feel different - I wanna be better at everything, and I wanna let you in. I swear."
DEREK: "Did you practice that?"
MEREDITH: "With hand gestures, but I dropped those. Just, now is not the time to give up on me, okay? That's what I'm saying."
DEREK: "Okay."
MEREDITH: "Okay."
DEREK: "Yes."

MARK: "I'm not what you're looking for."
ADDISON: "What...are you talking about?"
MARK: "I slept with someone. I couldn't hold out. Once a man whore, always a man whore, right?"

"Wait, you don't even have a penis. How am I the fish?"

GEORGE

[to Izzie] "You're his best friend. He loves you. He's got you. He needs you. I can't compete with you."

CALLIE

"Of course I know. The wife always knows."

NANCY

[narrating] "Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. But as tough as wanting something can be. The people who suffer the most, are those who don't know what they want."

MEREDITH

DEREK: "I don't... I just... That day, when you came out of the water ...trying to breathe for you. I love you, and I want you, but I don't know what to... you didn't swim. You didn't swim and you know how to. And I don't know if I can... I don't know if I wanna keep trying to breathe for you."
MEREDITH: [pauses, shocked] "I should go. I'll go."

MEREDITH: "Are we fine?"
DEREK: "Sure."
MEREDITH: "Not so convincing. I shouldn't have accused you of hovering. It wasn't nice... you were just trying to be there for me. But now I'm being available, and communicating, and getting naked, and doing all of you favorite things."
DEREK: "Good things."
MEREDITH: "Then why are you still staring at the ceiling?"

MEREDITH: "See, now you can't do that!"
DEREK: "Do what?"
MEREDITH: "Not look happy after sex. It's bad for the ego."
DEREK: "I'm fine."

"I'm getting in your bed naked..."

MEREDITH

Grey's Anatomy Season 3 Quotes

I wanted to come over here this morning to tell you... But now all I want to tell you is that I'm in love with you. I've been in love with you forever. And now you have a choice to make. I want you to take all the time you need, I don't want to rush you, but I love you. Just take your time. Because when I had to make a choice... I chose wrong.

Derek

What, so all of a sudden I'm the president of people with crappy lives?

Meredith