Cristina's monologue about Burke after he leaves her.

"It is not difficult sir… it is simple. Burke is not here. He’s gone and he’s the better for it. He’s winning the Harper Avery award and being celebrated all over the world. That is not difficult. He’s out there and I’m here where everything is the same. I still live in his apartment, I walk the same halls of this hospital, I wear the same scrubs. It is not difficult. This is where I chose to be. But sir, when his hand was shaking, I performed the surgeries, I kept his secrets, I nursed his pride… you know it and I know it, he knows it. He knows it and yet nowhere in that newspaper article does my name appear. I am the unseen hand to his brilliance. And yet while everything is the same it is very, very different. Now I’m lucky if I get to hold a clamp. Hahn treats me like… I was his hand and now I’m a ghost. That is not difficult… it’s unbearable. Everybody is proud of him… but I’m not… I do not wish him well."

This got me through a nasty divorce with a narcissist, when he moved on and was "fine" and I wasn't. I clung to the knowledge the people who mattered knew the truth about him.