Meredith Grey
FameRank: 6

"Dr. Meredith Grey"

/ portrayer = Ellen Pompeo (adult)

Nicolette Collier (young)

Claire Geare (age 3)

Aria Leabu (Season 11 flashbacks)

/ creator = Shonda Rhimes

/ first = "A Hard Day's Night (Grey's Anatomy)/A Hard Day's Night"

1x01, March 27, 2005

/ occupation = Attending physician/Attending General surgery/general surgeon at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital

/ title = Doctor of Medicine/M.D.

/ nickname = Mer

Death

Twisted Sister

Medusa

Dirty Mistress

/ spouse = Derek Shepherd

/ significantother = List of Grey's Anatomy characters/Finn Dandridge

George O'Malley

/ family = List of Grey's Anatomy characters/Ellis Grey (mother)

Thatcher Grey (father)

Lexie Grey (paternal half-sister)

List of Grey's Anatomy characters/Molly Thompson (paternal half-sister) Margaret "Maggie" Pierce (maternal half-sister)

Laura Thompson (paternal half-niece)

/ children = List of Grey's Anatomy characters#Family members/Zola Grey Shepherd (daughter, with Derek Shepherd/Derek) Derek Bailey Shepherd (son, with Derek Shepherd/Derek) }}

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I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.

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Okay, here it is, your choice... it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek, I love you, in a really, really big 'pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window', unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.

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Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

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I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope..

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Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need.

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