- Dr. Meredith Grey: According to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, when we are dying or have suffered a catastrophic loss, we all move through five distinct stages of grief. We go into denial, because the loss is so unthinkable, we can't imagine it's true. We become angry with everyone - angry with survivors, angry with ourselves. Then we bargain. We offer everything we have. We offer up our souls in exchange for just one more day. When the bargaining has failed and the anger is too hard to maintain, we fall into depression, despair, until finally we have to accept that we have done everything we can. We let go. We let go and move into acceptance.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: In medical school, we have a hundred classes that teach us how to fight off death and not one lesson in how to go on living.
- Dr. Izzie Stevens: Get up. I mean it, get up. Get up.
- [the girl stand up]
- Dr. Izzie Stevens: Now go get a life.
- Amanda: I can't.
- Dr. Izzie Stevens: George was a surgeon. He had a purpose. He wanted to save lives. And now he doesn't get the chance. Now he doesn't get the chance to do anything. Now he doesn't get the chance to do anything anymore, but you do. You could go to medical school, you know? You could hang out with your freakin' friends. I don't care what you do. Just go do something with your life, because you have one. You lived. You live and George didn't. And I know. I... I know... that feels horrible and shocking... and terrifying. But you lived. So go live your freakin' life.
- Amanda: I don't know how.
- Dr. Izzie Stevens: Nobody does. Nobody knows how. But God, have enough respect for George to figure it out. 'Cause if I see you sitting on this bench ever again, I will kick your ass from here to sunday.
- Dr. Richard Webber: You people, answer your pages. George O'Malley jumped in front of a bus today. He knew what he was doing, and he did anyway, and he did it to save a life. So I'm not gonna allow you doctors to stand here. There are lives on the line. There are lives we can save. So if George O'Malley can jump in front of a bus, we can answer our damn pages. So let's go.
- [he pauses]
- Dr. Richard Webber: Damn it. Damn it, O'Malley.
- Dr. Alex Karev: I need to tell you something, and I need you to not panic. I need you to keep breathing. I need you to stay alive, 'cause... I swear to God, I need you to stay alive. All right?
- Dr. Izzie Stevens: Okay.
- Dr. Alex Karev: O'Malley... he got in an accident. He's brain dead.
- Dr. Izzie Stevens: I'm sorry. What?
- Dr. Alex Karev: What is this?
- Dr. Izzie Stevens: Take off your pants.
- Dr. Alex Karev: Iz, it's, uh...
- Dr. Izzie Stevens: Be my husband. Get undresses, get into bed and hold me. I don't know what you're so mad about and I don't know what you're scared of because you won't talk to me. But I'm scared, too, Alex, and I can't if you won't, if we're gonna have any chance at a life together, then I need you to... please.
- Dr. Alex Karev: You died in my arms. You freakin' died and then you left instructions that I wasn't allowed to save your life. You want to know what I'm scared of? I'm scared of everything! I'm scared to move! I'm scared to breathe! I'm scared to touch you! I can't lose you. I won't survive. And that's your fault. You made me love you, you made me let you in, and then you freakin' die in my arms!
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: Look, I... I am an attending, and I am a single mother, and I lost O'Malley, and, I just can't, I can't care anymore. Stevens not my child, O'Malley was not my child. I have to stop treating. I just have t ostop caring so much 'cause I can't keep feeling like this, not at work. I have to save the feeling for my son, who needs it. So I just can't keep giving it away he... I can't, I won't.