Damon Salvatore quotes from The Vampire Diaries

My brother wants to kill me.

Damon

Welcome to the club.

Jeremy can't live with me, Stefan wants to fix me, and Caroline flat-out admitted that she doesn't like me this way. Clearly I'm not good at this vampire thing.

Damon

You know what I think? I think I never see you more alive.

That dance that they did today kind of remind me when...

Damon

When we danced together?

I wanted to dance with you. (They dance. After a little while, they kiss each other)

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What's that face?

Damon

What face? [does his eye thing]

That face.

Damon

I'm happy.

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Damon

The sire bond's not that literal, Stefan.

Really? Name one thing that you've asked her [Elena] to do that you haven't gotten.

Damon

You know what I haven't gotten? Blame, guilt. I get it Stefan. I get that you're pissed that Elena dumped you because she has feelings for me. Bet you blame the sire bond for that, too.

Yeah. You know what, I absolutely do.

Damon

Why, because it's impossible to think that she could have feelings for me?

No. Because it's impossible for her to be so blind that she doesn't see how wrong you are for her.

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Lexi

He [Stefan] needs balance and restraint.

Damon

What makes you think that I'm not balanced and restrained?

Lexi

The fact that you never have been.

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Damon

Charlotte. Please tell me you had a full life and you've done something other than counting bricks.

CCharlotte

Of course I have. I'm not crazy.

Then why're you still here?

CCharlotte

You know when someone breaks up with you and there's a song that reminds you of them? First you hate it, but then it brings back all the good memories of them. Counting the bricks is my song and I've been playing it for decades.

That's a really long time. Stop listening to the same song.

Damon

Yeah. Well, uh, you know in the plus column, you know New Orleans better than anyone in the world.

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CCharlotte

So you're just leaving me again?

Damon

No. I need to get on with my life. And so do you.

CCharlotte

I don't want to live without you.

Damon

If you want to make me happy, you will. You just, forget about me. You'll never think of me again and you'll find someone new and you'll be happier than ever. Please, stop crying.

CCharlotte

I'm never gonna be able to forget about you.

Damon

Yes, you are. And I'm never going to be happy until you realize that you're never gonna have the life you deserve if I'm in it. Goodbye Charlotte.

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Hey.

Damon

Hey back.

How was your night?

Damon

Awful. Yours?

Same.

Damon

Elena,um, we need to talk.

I know that I am sired to you, Damon. Caroline told me. That's what you and Stefan were doing, isn't it? Is there a way to break it?

Damon

Not exactly. Which is why we need to talk.

Tyler told me the bond doesn't affect how I feel, just a way I act. My feelings for you haven't changed. Nothing is changed.

Damon

Everything is changed, Elena.

Ok. Fine. I've changed. So have you, Damon. And I'm happy. Just like you were yesterday morning before we knew about any of this.

Damon

You know what would make me happy? To know that this entire time that I've been completely in love with you that what you actually felt for me was real.

It is real. I know that it is, Damon. I know what you're about to do. Please, don't do this to me.

Damon

I don't wanna do this , Elena. I'm not the good guy, remember? I'm the selfish one. I take what I want. I do what I want. I lie to my brother, I fall in love with his girl, I don't do the right thing...but I have to do right thing by you.

[Takes his hand and presses it to her heart] Does this feel wrong? [Places her hand on his cheek and caresses him face] Does this feel wrong?

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[Elena and Damon are laying in his bed. Elena is watching him as he appears to be sleeping]

Damon

[eyes still closed] This would be so much more fun if we were naked.

That was your call, not mine.

Damon

I was being a gentleman.

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Damon

I told him I would set you free. Right after I didn't tell him that we slept together.

So what do you want to do?

Damon

I want to throw you back in my bed and never let you leave.

So do it. [They draw closer and closer until suddenly, Elena's cell phone rings]

Damon

[in a choked voice] Saved by the cell phone.

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Damon

I was supposed to do the right thing by you and the right thing by my brother. Which is what I'm gonna do right now. You're going to go home.

What? No. Damon.

Damon

I'm going to stay here with Jeremy. We'll complete the mark, I'll teach him how to hunt, I'll protect him. And we'll kill vampires. Without you.

Damon, please.

Damon

I'm setting you free Elena. This is what I want. This is what will make me happy.

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Damon

Hope your day is going better than mine. Got to say, I'm liking the odds.

Stefan knows about us.

Damon

Ooh. How'd he take it?

How do you think?

Damon

I'm thinking for the first time all week I'm happy to be at Camp Nowhere.

How's Jeremy?

Damon

That's depends on how much you trust me.

You know that I trust you.

Damon

I think he's gonna get through this just fine.

Thanks for looking out for him.

Damon

Yeah well, I told them if they were good I'd buy them both ice cream so...look, I got to go.

Not yet. Something happened today. I realized something about you, about us. And you can say that it's the sire bond, you know what? Maybe...maybe it is. But what I'm telling you, it's the most real thing I ever felt in my entire life. I love you, Damon. I love you.

Damon

Look. I'm gonna get this cure for you. And I'm gonna have to do things you're not gonna like.

Damon.

Damon

But listen carefully. Get in your car...right now. Come to me.

I'll be there soon.

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Kol

Care for a drink?

Damon

He's underage, and I don't like you, so let's cut to it.

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Kol

What do you know of him [Silas]?

Damon

Nothing. Don't want to. Not our problem.

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Damon

(to Stefan) Silent treatment, huh? Is that your best shot? (to Klaus) He's still pissed at me for sleeping with Elena.

Are you sure about that? Because I caught him trying to sneak out of Rebekah's bed this morning, which would suggest to me that he's moved on.

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Ah, yes, for the love of Elena. How is it that she manages to overlook every horrific thing you've ever done? Is it willful ignorance or perhaps something more pathological?

Damon

Some people are just more capable of forgiveness than others. Bet you score about a negative 500 in that realm.

Come on. There must be a secret. It can't just be the sire bond. What is it? Compulsion? Manipulation? What is it you say to her?

Damon

I think this has something to do with a certain blond vampire. I think you murdered Carol Lockwood, and I think you're worried that Caroline's never going to forgive you.

You've done worse.

Damon

Debatable. See, I don't mind being the bad guy, because somebody has to fill that role and get things done. You do bad things for no reason. You do them to be a dick.

Debatable.

Damon

If you're going to be bad, be bad with purpose. Otherwise you're just not worth forgiving.