"He took something from me. He took little pieces of me, little pieces over time, so small, I didn't even notice, you know? He wanted me to be something that I wasn't, and I made myself into what he wanted. One day, I was me, Cristina Yang, and then suddenly I was lying for him, and jeopardizing my career, and agreeing to be married and wearing a ring, and being a bride. Until I was standing there in a wedding dress with no eyebrows, and I wasn't Cristina Yang anymore. And even then, I would've married him. I would have. I lost myself for a long time. And now that I'm finally me again, I can't. I love you. I love you more than I loved Burke. I love you. And that scares the crap out of me because when you asked me to ignore Teddy's page, you took a piece of me, and I let you. And that will never happen again."-from Grey's Anatomy (Episode 6.13)
"There's constant pressure to adapt to changes. It can be a painful process. But without it, you'll find yourself moving backwards instead of forwards ... We have to keep reinventing ourselves almost every minute because the world can change in an instant, and there's no time for looking back. Sometimes the changes are forced on us, sometimes they happen by accident, and we make the most of them. We cosntantly come up with new ways to fix ourselves. So we change, we adapt, we create new versions of ourselves. We just need to be sure that this one is an improvement over the last."
-from Grey's Anatomy (Episode 6.14)
"Nate didn't understand why, at seventeen, you had to map out your entire life. There would be plenty of time for more school after taking a year or two off ... And yet, all of his classmates at the St. Jude's School for Boys were planning to go straight to college and straight to grad school after college. The way Nate saw it, they were signing their livse away without thinking about what they really wanted to do."
-from Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me (Book 2)
"If only she and Nate could have the kind of romantic fights couples had in movies. First they would yell hurtful things at each other until she began to cry. She would grab her purse and her coat, fumbling with the buttons because she was so upset. Then, just as she was shakily opening the front door, preparing to walk out of his life forever, he would come up behind her and wrap his arms around her, holding her tight. She would turn around and look searchingly up at him for a moment ... In the end, he'd beg her to stay."
-from Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me (Book 2)
"What do you get for a boy to remind him that he loves and wants you more than ever?"
-from Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me (Book 2)
This next one is just a phrase in Latin -- it's used in Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me (Book 2) but it obviously wasn't coined there or anything ...
"Amor omnia vincint! Love conquers all."