Alex: Charlie, this has been amazing. The best time of my life. But patience, my love.
Charlie: Pragmatist.
Alex: Scientist.
Charlie: Well, I'd like you to meet the optimist.
Alex: Yin to your yang.
Charlie: I'll live with that.

Patient: You think I'm in denial?
Alex: Yes.
Patient: Well, I'm not the only one. Your fiance. He's defying the odds, defying the medicine, he's defying them all and he's gonna what, wake up? See, you keep believing the lie too, Dr. Reid.

What happened to Charlie isn't fair. But you're still a doctor. I need you here, Alex.

Dr. Kinney

Shahir: I'm immune to guilt.
Alex: That wasn't guilt.
Shahir: It presented like guilt.

[to Joel] What's fun for you isn't always fun for everyone else.

Alex

You want to earn respect, you gotta start taking some risk. So bet on your winners. My triumph is your glory.

Joel

Joel: My concern is for my patient.
Dr. Kinney: Your concern is for your reputation. You want to showboat, go somewhere else.

Joel: Nice office.
Dr. Kinney: Bigger than Charlie's. See? In a woman's world, size does matter.

Alex: So who's the lucky Juliet, Romeo?
Joel: I don't kiss and tell.
Alex: You barely even kiss.

Basic human contact is bigger than any idea. It takes you outside yourself. It's more comforting than words. Without it, we'd die. Sometimes, it's not enough. And sometimes it's enough for now. Contact grounds you. It brings you back.

Charlie

Goran: I'm not up for a relationship.
Maggie: Please shut up.

Comas are mysterious, and that's coming form someone who has intricate knowledge of the brain. I need a mochaccino.

Sahir

Saving Hope Quotes

Joel: It's gonna be weird, isn't it? I mean you and me. You didn't invite me to the wedding so presumably you're still in love with me.
Alex: Right. I totally forgot. I like to remember the poems you wrote me, the breakfast in bed, the nurses you were banging.
Joel: Okay, we can stop right there.

This is how it happens. You leave it all behind. Everything you love. Everything you know. You belong to the hospital now. And all you can do is hope.

Charlie