Frantic

  • Lexie: [narrating] Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone.
  • Mark: It isn't just death we have to grieve. It's life. It's loss. It's change.
  • Alex: And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime.
  • Izzie: That's how you stay alive. When it hurts so much you can't breathe, that's how you survive.
  • Derek: By remembering that one day, somehow, impossibly, you won't feel this way. It won't hurt this much.
  • Bailey: Grief comes in its own time for everyone, in its own way.
  • Owen: So the best we can do, the best anyone can do, is try for honesty.
  • Meredith: The really crappy thing, the very worst part of grief is that you can't control it.
  • Arizona: The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes.
  • Callie: And let it go when we can.
  • Meredith: The very worst part is that the minute you think you're past it, it starts all over again.
  • Cristina: And always, every time, it takes your breath away.
  • Meredith: There are five stages of grief. They look different on all of us, but there are always five.
  • Alex: Denial.
  • Derek: Anger.
  • Bailey: Bargaining.
  • Lexie: Depression.
  • Richard: Acceptance.

Burke was- He took something from me. He took little pieces of me, little pieces over time, so small I didn’t even notice, you know? He wanted me to be something I wasn’t, and I made myself into what he wanted. One day I was me Cristina Yang, and then suddenly I was lying for him, and jeopardizing my career, and agreeing to be married and wearing a ring, and being a bride. Until I was standing there in a wedding dress with no eyebrows, and I wasn’t Cristina Yang anymore. And even then, I would’ve married him. I would have. I lost myself for a long time. And now that I’m finally me again, I can’t. I love you. I love you more than I loved Burke. I love you. And that scares the crap out of me because when you asked me to ignore Teddy’s page, you took a piece of me, and I let you. And that will never happen again.

Cristina Yang (via tattooedonme)

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I always said I’d be happier alone. I’d have my work, my friends - but someone in your life all the time? More trouble than it’s worth… 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 then 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 (via donnalouisewilkins)

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When do you throw in the towel? Admit that a lost cause is something just that? There comes a point where it all becomes too much. When we get too tired to fight anymore. So we give up. That’s when the real work begins. To find hope where there seems to be absolutely none at all.

Grey’s Anatomy (via brianaarnold)