 " Lexie ’ s struggling to be hardcore herself . I don ’ t know if I ’ d go so far as to say , perhaps , this kind of struggle must run in the family , but … Okay . Fine . It must run in the family – because Lexie , though she ’ s very different from Meredith in many many ways , in this one way – they seem to be exactly alike . Meredith and Lexie both want to succeed . They want to be strong . They want to feel normal . They want , so much , to be whole . But it ’ s a struggle – a genuine struggle for them . Being hardcore doesn ’ t come naturally . Sometimes , they have to fake it . " 
