She doesn’t know yet that strings are all that hold her together.
Miranda Bailey, their resident, marches in. Five feet of pure, unadulterated terror.
The locker room. A herd of nervous, over-caffeinated twenty-somethings in short white coats that are too white. Cristina Yang, already diagnosing everyone’s posture. Izzie Stevens, former model, hiding her lingerie ads under a pile of textbooks. George O’Malley, kind eyes, desperate to be seen as a man and not a puppy. Alex Karev, leaning against a locker like he’s already bored of you. season 1 greys anatomy
“You didn’t tell me,” she says.
The First Cut is the Deepest
“Nobody knows where they might end up…” — The Postal Service, “Such Great Heights” (or the show’s actual Psapp, “Cosy in the Rocket” — but you feel the early-2000s indie heartbeat).
“Which of you handed me a patient with a ruptured spleen and wrote ‘owwie’ in the chart?” She doesn’t know yet that strings are all
"The game. They say a person either has what it takes to play, or they don’t. My mother was a world-class player. I grew up on the sidelines, holding her water bottle, watching her win. But here’s the thing about the game of surgery: it doesn’t care about your last name. It only cares about what you do when the blood hits the floor."
