That's why I sent you to her. The cancer needs to come first.

Helen

Seeing you with the bracelet told me how wrong I was about how wrong I was about my own son.

Kapoor

Helen: Dania, is this about the baby.
Dania: What if you have another me?
Dania's Mom: Well then I'd be the luckiest mom in the world.

Someone please tell Robin that his daddy loves him.

Michael

Michae: You've raised an amazing woman.
Lynn's Mom: Thank you.
Michael: That's why I'm withdrawing my case. He can't grow up in foster care. My son needs to be with people who love him even if it's not with me. And if you do as good a job as you did with Lynn ...

Virginia: Do you want to die Max?
Max: No.
Virginia: Radiation is expecting you. Three B.
Max: Three B.
Virginia: Max, this is how you get better.

Rohan told me this was a family piece when he gave it to me, but from the look on your face I'm assuming it belonged to your late wife.

Ella

Max: Please, please take me back.
Helen: Max, friends. Colleagues.

I got into neurosurgery so I didn't have to touch my patient's bodies let alone their feet.

Clint

Helen: You are risking everyone's life.
Max: I'm trying to save everyone's life.
Helen: Well that is not possible

Max: What do you want? Anything. I'll make it happen.
Burl: I want to get better.

Helen: We have no power, no blood. It's freezing!
Max: It doesn't mean someone has to die!
Helen: But someone will. That's just a fact now. Your job is no longer to save everyone, it's to minimize the damage. Do you understand that?
Max: I thought it would work. I just didn't see a scenario where it didn't.
Helen: I know, but now we have to choose. You need to let go.
Max: I can't ... choose. I won't.
Helen: Then I will.

New Amsterdam Season 1 Quotes

My sister Luna and I were born here in New Amsterdam, and eight years later, Luna died here. Hospital-acquired infection. Entirely preventable.

Max

Max: Unlike the previous medical director, I actually expect you to practice medicine at this hospital because I don't know, that's your job.
Helen: You're funny.
Max: You said that.
Helen: I'll tell you what, I'll continue giving speeches all over the world because you can't afford the type of publicity I give this hospital. And I'll continue my on-air appearances with Ellen, Oprah, and anyone else powerful enough to go by one name because someone has to remind New York that even though New Amsterdam is an underfunded public hospital, we can still go toe-to-toe with the privates from basic care to state of the art procedures. I will be back next week with lunch at the Tavern. My treat.