Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

I Will Follow You Into the Dark (2009)

Katherine Heigl: Dr. Izzie Stevens

Quotes 

• Dr. Izzie Stevens : You think every time you diagnose a patient and hand someone a death sentence, there's a prize? The prize is, you didn't screw it up this time. The prize is, you people actually did something right. The prize is, you were doctors today. You were doctors. That is the prize!

• Dr. Izzie Stevens : [to Lexie]  What would you say? To Patient X. How would you... How would you break the news?

  Dr. Lexie Grey : Um, I would say that I was very sorry, and that there were support groups. Th... I... I don't know. What do you say to somebody whose, whose gonna...

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : You say, they have a choice. They can run away and hide from it, or they can face it. You say they need to be around the people who love them, because it's gonna be the toughest fight of their life, and no one should have to do it alone. And then you give them the odds. And even though a 5 percent survival rate is bad, it's really bad. You say... you say...

  Dr. Lexie Grey : Screw the odds! People die of the hiccups. My mother died of the hiccups. Survival rate for that is what... 100 percent? The odds are that she should be alive right now. The odds are... The odds mean crap! So people should face it and they should fight. Maybe not those words.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : No. Exactly those words. Thank you, Dr. Grey.

• Dr. Izzie Stevens : Maybe Cristina's right. Maybe trying to teach the interns is pointless.

  Dr. George O'Malley : Please. Don't listen to Cristina. She thinks just because you'd rather teach than take out a gall bladder, that you're the new me.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : [laughs]  O'Malley, the sequel.

  Dr. George O'Malley : [laughs]  O'Malley 2.0.

• Dr. Alex Karev : [about Derek]  Dude, he's fried.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : He is not fried. He lost a patient and got hit with a lawsuit all in the all in one week. He just needs time.

  Dr. Alex Karev : He's been sitting there for three days. The sofa cushions are gonna start bonding to his ass and he's eating all of my cereal.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : He's taking stock. Something huge and life-altering happened to him and he's taking stock, figuring out his next move. We shouldn't judge him. We shoudn't rush him.

  Dr. Alex Karev : Whatever. Sylvia Plath's picking out all of the marshmallows. They're the best part!