- Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] The human body is designed to compensate for loss. It adapts, so it no longer needs the thing it can't have, but sometimes, the loss is too great and the body can't compensate on it's own. That's when surgeons get involved.
- Dr. Arizona Robbins: [to Callie] Hey, can we talk? Listen, I want a piece of paper that says Sofia is mine. I know that we say we're going to do it, but we never actually do it.
- Dr. Callie Torres: Then let's do it.
- Dr. Arizona Robbins: 'Cause she's mine, she's my baby, too. I mean, she's yours and she's Mark's, but she's mine, too. I mean, I'm really the only one who can get her to go back to sleep in the middle of the night.
- Dr. Callie Torres: I know.
- Dr. Arizona Robbins: And she calls me Mama.
- [voice starts to break]
- Dr. Arizona Robbins: And I know it sounds like she's babbling, but she's saying it to me. I'm... I'm her mama.
- Dr. Callie Torres: I know. I know you are. We'll get you that piece of paper, okay? I promise.
- [Arizona and Callie hug each other]
- Dr. Mark Sloan: [to Catherine] Mark Sloan, Plastics. Isn't penile reconstruction the standard approach in cases like these? Why a transplant?
- Dr. Catherine Avery: Well, I can answer your question with a question. Do you like your penis?
- Dr. Callie Torres: [pretends to cough] Yes.
- [Arizona and Teddy laugh]
- Dr. April Kepner: [after Catherine taps her on the shoulder] Yes! You have no idea...
- Dr. Catherine Avery: No, sorry, sweetie. You're too tense. You're all wound up. This isn't wood shop. Step to the back.
- [walks over to Cristina's station]
- Dr. Catherine Avery: You need to lay off the lattes, dear. Your left hand is shaking like a motel bed spring.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: It... It's just tired.
- Dr. Catherine Avery: I hear you, honey. Aren't we all? Step to the back.
- [to everyone]
- Dr. Catherine Avery: It's very simple, people. All it has to be is perfect.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] We're so hopeful at the beginning of things. That there seems like there's only a world to be gained, not lost. They say the inability to accept loss is a form of insanity, it's probably true, but sometimes, it's the only way to stay alive.
- Dr. Alex Karev: [to Cristina] Zola's got a bowel obstruction. We have to operate.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: What? Where's Mer?
- Dr. Alex Karev: She can't know. Neither can Derek. I mean, they get involved and then Social Services flips out and the adoption's shot.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Well, is she stable?
- Dr. Alex Karev: For the moment. And I-I mean, that's the right call, right? We don't tell 'em.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: You just told me it was.
- Dr. Alex Karev: But I'm right, right?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: It'll blow the adoption? Then, yeah, we can't tell them.
- Dr. Alex Karev: Okay, okay. That's your decision.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Hey, you just called me down here so I can take responsiblity for your decision. How small are your balls?
- Dr. Alex Karev: Meredith didn't talk to me for weeks because I screwed up her life. The balls are pretty small right now.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: [about Zola] Do you know how long her shunt must have been malfunctioning for her bowel to have gotten this bad?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: They didn't know what to look for.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Exactly, because she should've been with us.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: But she's not and that's my fault and I may never sleep another night again because of that, but if there's a prayer of us getting her back then we just have to dot our I's and cross our T's and not mess with the rules. Arizona is a great surgeon. Please don't make it worse.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: [to Arizona] What is your plan on fixing this?
- Dr. Arizona Robbins: It's just kinked. Once I get in there and I remove the adhesions and fix the obstruction. The shunt will be fine.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: What if it's not? What if it's disconnected or broken?
- Dr. Arizona Robbins: Then I convert to a V-A shunt. Derek, I can do this. Let me do this.
- Dr. Richard Webber: [to Bailey] You hear that Zola came into the hospital, had a bowel obstruction?
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: Yep.
- Dr. Richard Webber: It can't be easy on Meredith. It can't be easy at all.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: You are really not using Meredith's sick baby to guilt me into putting her on my trial.
- Dr. Richard Webber: Well, if you think she lacks judgement, then help her. You're the moral compass of this hospital.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: [scoffs] Moral...? You don't... I'm the moral compass of nothing. I am using one man like a plaything and had another one bribing a scheduler.
- Dr. Richard Webber: I... I really don't want to know.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: Like a plaything. Often and enthusiastically.
- Dr. Richard Webber: M... Maybe you should stop. Did I mention that I promised Ellis Grey on her death bed that I would take care of Meredith.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: I am still not putting that girl on my trial.
- Dr. Catherine Avery: [to Mark] My son tells me I have trouble admitting when I'm wrong, so this is the place where I should say, that was an impressive save.
- Dr. Mark Sloan: Of course it was. He's a good kid, probably because you've give him such a complex, but whatever the reason, let him find his own way. He'll do good.
- Dr. Catherine Avery: Thank you.
- Dr. Mark Sloan: Oh, and don't count out Lexie Grey until you meet her. She's smart, she's beautiful, she's perfect. A guy couldn't do any better.