Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

Elevator Love Letter (2009)

Justin Chambers: Dr. Alex Karev

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• Dr. Alex Karev : [closing voiceover]  It doesn't matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.

• Dr. Alex Karev : It's crap. This is crap! You just can't go messing with people's heads like that! Even if she freezes the embryos, do you think... Do you think we'll get a chance to use them? Do you think she'll still be here? Do you think she'll survive all this? Do you think... I think... She told me, she told me she was seeing a ghost, okay? And I'm so used to all the crazy chicks in my life that I didn't even... I'm a doctor. A doctor! And I didn't even think... and now she's... this is wrong. This isn't how it's supposed to happen.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : I know.

  Dr. Alex Karev : It's crap!

  Dr. Meredith Grey : I know.

  Dr. Alex Karev : I hate this!

  Dr. Meredith Grey : I know.

  Dr. Alex Karev : This isn't... this isn't how we were supposed... this isn't how I want to do this. This isn't how Izzie and I were supposed to make a baby.

• Dr. Alex Karev : [opening voiceover]  Surgeons are all messed up. We're butchers. Messed up, knife happy, butchers. We cut people up. We move on. Patients die on our watch. We move on. We cause trauma, we suffer trauma. We don't have time to worry about all the blood and death and crap really makes us feel.