- Frank Martin: Do you want the walls eggshell or white?
- Dr. Kerry Weaver: Do I look like Martha Stewart? I'm the Chief of Staff, I've got real work to do.
- [about Joe]
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: I wonder what he's thinking.
- Maggie Wyczenski: "Get a life, Mom."
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: Oh, gee, thanks.
- Maggie Wyczenski: I've been through all of this.
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: Have you had a C-section, a hysterectomy, and a premature baby?
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: I can't shut my brain off. I keep thinking, why is the dopamine at 17 instead of 20 and why don't they change the tube position? I can't see his eyes. Do you know what colour they are?
- Dr. Luka Kovac: They're blue.
- Frank Martin: [Morris is wearing an expensive suit] What'd you do? Mug a pimp?
- Dr. Archie Morris: Yeah, your dad says hi.
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: I can't do this. I can't pretend everything's gonna be ok. Premies don't make it out of the OR.
- Maggie Wyczenski: Let it go. Abby, Abby. All the bad things you've seen, let it go.
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: And I can't believe I let myself get talked into this.
- Maggie Wyczenski: Stop it!
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: I spent a month in the NICU, I know how this ends.
- Maggie Wyczenski: Abby! You have a lot of great qualities, but optimism is not one of them.
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: [Abby laughs] Whose fault is that?
- Maggie Wyczenski: Yeah. Alright. I did not create a good environment for a child to grow up believing things would work out. But you're not a child any longer. You're the mother now. And that baby down there needs you to believe he's gonna be ok.
- Dr. Donald Anspaugh: Another round of epi! Guys, he's grey. Point 2 of epi. 10 cc's of pav, now!
- Dr. Abby Lockhart: I'm trying! I am really, really trying!
- Dr. Archie Morris: I'm not trying to toot my own horn, okay? But had Jerry wound up in the hands of Barnett or Lockhart, he'd be rapping with Tupac right now.
- Dr. Archie Morris: I am not an ass-kissing company man. I'm an ass-kissing ER man, and I want my scrubs back!
- Dr. Tony Gates: You want fries or onion rings?
- Dwight Zadro: Vegetables. I'm doing South Beach.
- Dr. Tony Gates: You drank a milk shake an hour ago.
- [Pratt comes over with a lab coat]
- Dr. Gregory Pratt: Yo Gates! You want me to take this or put it in the lost and found for you?
- Dr. Tony Gates: Oh, I don't do the whites. I'm into natural fibers.
- Dr. Gregory Pratt: You know, Gates, you've always bugged me. But you're in my ER now, so put on the damn coat.
- [about Neela]
- Dr. Tony Gates: You know, I hear she had a roommate. Never tried to sleep with her.
- Dr. Ray Barnett: What a dill weed.
- Dr. Tony Gates: [to a man who has overdosed on heroin] Looks like you got a bad batch of heroin there. Knocked you on your ass. I hate when that happens. don't you?
- Byron Evers: That's not funny, man.
- Dr. Tony Gates: [to a man who has overdosed on heroin] Looks like you got a bad batch of heroin there. Knocked you on your ass. I hate when that happens. don't you?
- Paramedic: That's not funny, man.