“ We enter the world alone, and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to ourselves to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise, we’re in it by ourselves. Strangers, cut off from each other, and we forget… just how connected we all are. So instead, we choose love, we choose life, and for a moment, we feel just a little bit less alone.
— GREY’S ANATOMY S05E10 “All By Myself”
“ When you’re little, nighttime is scary because there are monsters hiding right under the bed.When you get older, the monsters are different.Self-doubt. Loneliness. Regret. And though you may be older and wiser, you still find yourself scared of the dark.Sleep. It’s the easiest thing to do. You just… close your eyes. But for so many of us, sleep seems out of our grasp.We want it, but we don’t know how to get it.But once we face our demons, face our fears…and turn to each other for help…nighttime isn’t so scary because we realize we aren’t all alone in the dark.
— GREY’S ANATOMY S05E09 “In The Midnight Hour”
“ This isn’t real, is it? I’m just gonna keep my eyes close because this is like that moment in the morning when you first wake up and you’re still half asleep and everything seems… things are possible, dreams feel true and for that one moment between waking and sleeping anything can be real, and then you open your eyes and the sun hits you and then you realize that… I’m just gonna keep my eyes closed.
— Izzie Stevens GREY’S ANATOMY ”In The Midnight Hour” S05E09
“ We like to think that we are rational beings; humane, conscientious, civilized, thoughtful. But when things fall apart, even just a little, it becomes clear we are not better than animals. We have opposable thumbs, we think, we walk erect, we speak, we dream, but deep down we are still routing around in the primordial ooze; biting, clawing, scratching out an existence in the cold, dark world like the rest of the tree-toads and sloths….There’s a little animal in all of us and maybe that’s something to celebrate. Our animal instinct is what makes us seek comfort, warmth, a pack to run with. We may feel caged, we may feel trapped, but still as humans we can find ways to feel free. We are each other’s keepers, we are the guardians of our own humanity and even though there’s a beast inside all of us, what sets us apart from the animals is that we can think, feel, dream and love. And against all odds, against all instinct, we evolve.
— GREY’S ANATOMY S4E12 ‘Where The Wild Things Are’
