Favorite Quotes

Memorable Quotes

Mark and Elizabeth have said some incredible things. From hilarious, to romantic, to moving, and devastating, Mark and Elizabeth have amazing quotes. Here is a collection of my favorites...

Funny Quotes

Elizabeth (on the dismal conditions of Mark's apartment): Every faucet leaks, your toilet actually rocks...
Mark: I kinda like that.
Elizabeth:... and there are creatures, scurrying about in the walls. Do you know what scurries about in walls, Mark?
Mark: Bunnies?

~"Sand and Water" (Season 7)

Heartwarming Quotes

Mark and Elizabeth are at a hotel, where Elizabeth has just missed her meeting. Mark and Elizabeth are having dinner together.
Mark: Ah, listen...
Elizabeth: What?
Mark: It's weird,
Elizabeth (giggles): What's weird?
Mark: They're playing the Tango.
Elizabeth: You know the Tango?
Mark: Wanna crash a wedding?
[Mark leads Elizabeth to the dance floor]
Elizabeth: You do know how to do this?
Mark: It's a traditional American wedding.
Elizabeth: I'm not sure...
Mark: Just follow my lead.
[Mark and Elizabeth Tango]

~"Responsible Parties" (Season 5)

Elizabeth gasps as she marvels at Mark's gorgeous new house. She runs around, expressing her love for the deck, the walls, everything.
Mark: You should check it out.
Elizabeth: What?
Mark: The icemaker.
[Elizabeth looks at the freezer]
Elizabeth: Lovely.
Mark: Ya... you have to open it. It has a special ice feature.
Elizabeth: What? Does the ice come in different shaped cubes or something?
[Elizabeth opens the freezer, gasps, and then closes it. She turns to Mark]
Elizabeth: OhmyGod.... Mark....
[Elizabeth slowly opens the freezer again and we get a look inside. Inside the freezer sits a wedding ring in a small black box. Mark takes the box and holds it up to Elizabeth.]
Mark (looks at Elizabeth): I'm a little nervous, so... ah... let me say it. Elizabeth, I love you. I was hoping you'd give me the joy and honor of being your husband.
Elizabeth: Oh... [gasps and looks at the ring, smiling]
Mark: Is that a "yes"?
[Elizabeth takes the ring from the box, slips it on her finger and nods]
Elizabeth: Yes.

~"Sand and Water" (Season 7)

Mark has just woken up from surgery after having his tumor removed. Elizabeth and Dr. Burke are at his side.
Dr. Burke: And who's that? [He gestures toward Elizabeth]
Mark: Never seen her before in my life. She's pretty darn cute.

~"Piece of Mind" (Season 7)

Elizabeth is on the phone with Mark on their wedding day. Both have discovered that the storm in Chicago has forced several flight cancellations.
Mark: Well... if you want to wait..
Elizabeth: No, no... I don't want to wait.
Mark: Neither do I.
Elizabeth: Sure.
Mark: Let's get married.
Elizabeth: Okay.
Mark: I'll see you walking down the aisle, then?
Elizabeth: I'll be hard to miss.
Mark: I love you.
Elizabeth: I love you, too.

~"April Showers" (Season 7)

Mark is sitting on the bathroom floor, violently sick to his stomach from chemotherapy. Elizabeth wets a washcloth with cold water and holds it to his forehead. Ella has spoken her first word: "Dada"
Elizabeth: You know, I tried for weeks to get her to say "Mama" and "moon."
Mark: They always say "Dada" first.
Elizabeth: That's just because it's easy to say.
Mark: Maybe she likes me.
Elizabeth: She's a good judge of character.

~"Bygones" (Season 8)

Powerful Quotes

Louise Cupertino is a patient with Down's Syndrome who is in desperate need of a heart transplant. If she doesn't get a new heart soon, she will die. Mark and Maggie discover that the hospital transplant committee refused to put Louise on the transplant list because of her mental disability.
Mark speaks to Nina Pomerantz, hoping to find a way to change things.
Mark: There are five people on the committee, Casun's already a "yes", if I can get you and one other person to sign on, Louise can get a new heart.
Nina: Our decisions have to be unanimous, but I'm the one that turned Louise down.
Mark: Why?
Nina: Do you know how many people die each year because an organ doesn't become available for transplant? Thirty-five hundred.
Mark: She had a job, an apartment, a mother who loves her. Is her life somehow less valuable than a businessman with a wife and kids and a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit?
Nina: Don't patronize me, Mark. I agonized over this. Louise has an I.Q. of 40. She can't comprehend the surgical risks. Yes, she had a job. Sure, but she was always late. Do you know why? Because she doesn't know how to tell time. How is she going to adhere to the rhigors of the post-transplant regime?
Mark: Her mother will make sure she gets her meds, get her where she needs to go.
Nina: She's a 120 pound 8-year-old, Mark. We do the operation, assuming she doesn't die for lack of post-operative care, she's in a state home in two years... and her mother is adamant she not end up in a home.
[Mark sighs, heads out of Nina's office, but stops in the doorway and turns back to her.]
Mark: Those are all beauraucratic, perfectly logical reasons we give ourselves so that we can sleep at night. Louise can make people smile, she can laugh, cry, touch or hold someone... I have an 8-year-old, and if she never grew a day older, I would still cherish every moment we spent together. It's not our place to decide whether Louise lives or dies. She has as much a right to be here as you or I do. Nina...don't let her die.

~"Faith" (Season 3)

A young girl named Amy is brought into the ER. Amy has cancer and is a DNR. Mark is taking care of Amy and is alone in the trauma room with her when she expresses to him that she doesn't want to die. Mark puts Amy on a ventillator much to her father's dismay.
Kerry: This is serious, Mark. Do you understand the position you put us in?
Mark: I followed the standard of care based upon my patient's wishes. She's over 18.
Kerry: She signed a DNR and gave her father power of attorney.
Mark: She still has rights.
Carter (comes in): Dr. Greene, Amy's throwing PVCs.
Mark: How many?
Carter: 10 to 12.
Mark: Did you giver her litocane?
Carter: No yet, I just want to make sure, she's no longer DNR?
Kerry: No.
Mark (simultaneously with Weaver): Yes.
Carter: So what do I do if she codes?
Mark: Recessutate her.
Kerry: No, Carter, don't.
Mark: Kerry, she's my patient.
Kerry: I can't allow you to ignore a standing DNR.
Mark: She revoked her DNR!
Kerry: She can't.
Mark: Yes, she can.
Kerry: Not with altered mental status. Did you see her CT? That girl has mets all over her brain, she's on morphine, probably hypoxic...
Mark: I talked to her, Kerry. She was clear, conscious, and alert.
Kerry: Well, I didn't see that.
Mark: You're gonna have to trust me.
Kerry: I'm not sure you're in the state of mind right now to be objective...
Mark: Kerry...
Kerry:... perhaps I should take over on this one...
Mark: I've got it covered...
Kerry: Mark, I'm taking this patient.
Mark: You're gonna have to fire me first.
Carter: So... what do I do if she codes?
Kerry: Nothing, Cater. You do nothing.
[Kerry walks away.]
Mark: If she codes, call me, Cater.

~"Last Rites" (Season 6)

Elizabeth has found out that Kerry has called a Competency Board on Mark, just a few days after he has returned to work after enduring a craniotomy.
Elizabeth: How dare you! Damn it, Kerry! They sawed off half his skull..
Kerry: Hello, Elizabeth, how are you?
Elizabeth:... then they inserted high-dosage chemotherapy wafters into the empty cavity. It caused swelling right next to Brocha's, of course he has a little aphasia... But that was six weeks ago. The swelling's gone down and he's back to normal. If anything, I find his honesty rather refreshing. We can all do with a little more candor around here.
Kerry: Candidly speaking, are you sure you can be objective about this?
Elizabeth: OF COURSE I'M NOT OBJECTIVE! Look... I've been with him every moment, and I can tell you he is making remarkable progress and is no danger to anyone, except perhaps easily threatened minor demagogues.
Kerry: He may be endangering patients. I'm not unsympathetic to his circumstances, but I have LARGER RESPONSIBILITIES!
Elizabeth: It's despicable and you should be ashamed of yourself. I hope that you end up with a possible fatal illness one day, Kerry, so that I can do absolutely nothing to help you.

~"A Walk in the Woods" (Season 7)

A boy named Daniel is brought to the ER. He is concerned for his brother, ignoring his own well being. His parents make it clear to him that it was his fault his brother is out there lost in the storm with potentially fatal injuries. Mark speaks to Daniel alone.
Mark: I want you to promise me something.
Daniel: What?
Mark: Don't listen to (your parents). Don't believe that you're not just as good as your brother. Just as smart... just as special... One day, they may realize that. But you can tell them it doesn't matter, because you already knew. You already knew before they did.

~"Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain" (Season 8)

Aaron, a young teenage boy, is brought into the ER. He has been injured in a sledding accident. His father, who suffered a brain injury years ago, was pulling him and his friend on a snow moblie when his father ran into something. Aaron apparently pressured his dad to do it when he knew it was wrong. He also continues to allow the police to believe that his father is solely responsible.
Aaron: He could have said "no."
Mark: Could he? You think your father likes what happened to him? He lost his wife, he lost his job... he lost himself. You're the only thing he has left. And he still thinks that you two are buddies.
Aaron: We are...
Mark: Well then you need to grow up and start acting like one.
Aaron: Are the cops still here?
Mark: They might be.
Aaron: Well, can I talk to them again?
Mark: I'll see what I can do.
Aaron: And... could you tell my dad 'I'm sorry'?
Mark: No... but you can.

~"It's All In Your Head" (Season 8)

Powerful & Heart-wrenching Quotes

Mark is being interviewed by Aggie, a part of a TV crew who questions about his attack. Mark is still suffering both physically and psychologically from being brutally assaulted.
Mark: The worst thing about it, isn't what it did to me. The worst thing, is that it means that some of the world's violence has leaked into our own ER. This is meant to be a safe place, for fixing people... and now it's vulnerable. And as an ER doctor, that's hard to accept.
Aggie: Sounds frightening. Are you scared?
Mark: Sure... of, ah, losing control.
Aggie: Control of what's outside?
Mark: And what's in me.

~"Ambush" (Season 4)

Mark is being rolled into surgery on a gurney for a tumor resection. Elizabeth is following with him as far as she can go, holding his hands.
Elizabeth: Hey, your hands are like ice. Do you want a blanket?
[Elizabeth looks down at Mark, who is looking down looking terrified.]
Elizabeth: Mark... Mark... are you okay?
Mark: If I don't make it through this...
Elizabeth: Shh.... don't talk like that...
Mark: If I don't make it... I left you a life insurance. It'll pay for the house, for you, and the baby.
Elizabeth: I'm sorry, Mark. I can't go through here.
Mark: I love you, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: I love you, too.
[Elizabeth comfortingly kisses Mark.]
Elizabeth: You're going to be okay, and I'll see you very very soon.
[Elizabeth kisses Mark again before waving as he is rolled into the operating room.]

~"Piece of Mind" (Season 7)

Elizabeth is waiting at the church with her parents on her wedding day. Mark is late and has not called.
Isabelle: (Mark will) be here, Elizabeth, don't fret.
Elizabeth (fighting back tears): But I do fret. Everytime he's late, I fret. Everytime he slurrs a word... or... or... gets tired or bumps his head, I fret. I'm about to get married, and I'm afraid. Not of being with him, but of being without him. I'm afraid he won't be around to raise this child.

~"April Showers" (Season 7)

Ella is in the ER, her life hanging in the balance because of a drug overdose. Ella swallowed one of Rachel's Ecstasy pills, which she kept in her backpack. Susan comes in the Trauma Room with Rachel, who was wandering the halls of the ER.
Mark: Rachel, where have you been?
Rachel: I was just waiting outside... is she okay?
[Mark opens the Trauma Room door. Ella is on a ventilator.]
Mark: Does she look okay?
Rachel:... I'm sorry.
Mark: YOU'RE SORRY?!
Susan: Mark...
Mark: Stay out of this.
[Mark turns to face Rachel and looks straight in her eyes. He advances towards Rachel as she backs away.]
Mark: You bring drugs into our house and leave them out for a baby?
Rachel: It wasn't mine.
Mark: STOP LYING!
Rachel: I'm not! Uh... They were just for a party and I wasn't even sure I was gonna take them.
Mark: Well, your sister did.
Rachel: But... she's gonna be okay, though, right? I mean... it was just one pill...
Mark: Are you really that stupid? Ella is nine months old!
Rachel: I know!
Mark: She almost died!
Rachel: Dad, don't... don't...
Mark: Don't what? What? Don't call you a liar? Because that's what you are, Rachel! You PROMISED me you weren't doing drugs!
Rachel: But... but...
Mark: She could have long-term brain damage, learning disabilities, low I.Q., memory impairment... SHE COULD STILL DIE!
Rachel (in tears): I know, Dad. Please! Dad, I'm sorry! Daddy... I'm sorry!
[Rachel wraps her arms around Mark, who hugs her awkwardly. Rachel continues to sob in his arms.]

~"Damage is Done" (Season 8)

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