Damon Salvatore quotes from The Vampire Diaries

You dragged me all the way to New York because you were feeling nostalgic?

Damon

No, I dragged you to New York because in a matter of three days, you managed to piss off everyone in Mystic Falls. A little more difficult to do in a city of millions.

(shrugging) I was hungry.

Damon

You were reckless.

Emotionless. There's a difference.

Damon

Look, all that matters is that when I lived here, I fed like crazy and had a blast and went undetected for years.

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Damon

Ooh, silver lining. If Rebekah takes the cure, then she's mortal. And then we can just kill her right then and there.

Ooh, dark cloud. Elena stays a vampire forever.

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So what happened to the guy who thought Elena should embrace being a vampire, let the chips fall where they may?

Damon

That guy got his neck snapped in New York and this guy is royally pissed off.

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Damon

You are under age.

You are over age, and honestly, it's kinda creepy.

Damon

Oh, come on. What bad-ass senior is complete without a prom date that's slightly too old for high school?

Please don't refer to yourself as my date.

Damon

Oh, I'm sorry. Your boyfriend. Something I said?

I'm not doing this.

Damon

You're not gonna deny that I'm your boyfriend now, are you?

What are you doing? Trying to stir some feelings in me? Ironic, since you, my sire, are the one who had me turn them off.

Damon

Yeah, well, hindsight is almost a bigger bitch than you.

You're nothing to me, Damon.

Damon

Really? Then why tell me you're in love with me? Why tell me it's the most real thing you've ever felt in your life?

I told you I loved you because I was sired to you, and now that I'm not, I know that none of it was real, but if you still think that it was, I mean, maybe you're the one who needs help with your emotions, not me.

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You looking for Silas or you waxing nostalgic about misspent youth?

Damon

What happened to you being over it?

What do you mean?

Damon

Well, I mean, for a guy who's ready to move on, you seemed pretty convincing as a boyfriend out on the dance floor.

I mean, isn't that what we're doing, reminding Elena of what she's lost?

Damon

Like her feelings for you?

Yeah. Yeah, maybe.

Damon

Hmm.

I mean... I don't mean to be a dick, Damon, but Elena and I have a history. Memories, laughs, ups and downs. It was a real relationship. I mean, what you have is just a one-night stand that was probably the result of the sire-bond. (Damon moves toward Stefan and gets staked) Your mind is a very dark and riveting place, Damon.

Damon

Uh, Silas. Where's my brother, you psychic freak?

Silas

He's in the woods, where I convinced him I was you. He's probably in a bit of pain now, too. The witch is mine. Stay away from her.

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Damon

She may not feel much, but shes gonna feel that in the morning.

So what's the plan?

Damon

When Bonnie was whaling on her tonight, I could see it in her eyes. Elena thought she was gonna die. She was scared.

Fear.

Damon

Last time I checked, one of those pesky human emotions.

So plan "c"... make her life a living hell.

Damon

You care to talk about our other problem? You know, the one that can be anywhere, at any time.

Silas still needs Bonnie. And if tonight is any indication, she's no pushover. She's not gonna let him manipulate her, not anymore.

Damon

I wouldn't underestimate his talents. He fooled the hell out of both of us. What did he say to you anyway?

He led me out in the woods, claiming he saw Silas, then he staked me.

Damon

Hmm.

How did he get to you?

Damon

Talked about his hair. I figured it had to be you.

Funny.

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Damon

That's the calmest desiccating vampire I've ever seen. I remember when you starved me down there for three days. I would have wept at your feet for an orange peel.

Look, she's not gonna beg for blood. Begging means desperation. Emotion. She's still a no-humanity zone.

Damon

How hungry does she have to be before we can torture some feelings back into her?

A lot hungrier than she is now, apparently.

Damon

So, what are we supposed to do in the mean time?

Maybe I can provide a little excitement.

(surprised) Katherine.

The one and only. Sort of.

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Damon

You look terrible.

I'm hungry. Not that you care.

Damon

But I do. That's the whole point. I do care. You don't care. It's about time for that to change. (gives Elena a blood bag)

(gags) Vervain?

Damon

How does that make you feel? Hurt because I'd betray you? Angry because I'd cause you pain? Or scared? Because you know it's gonna get a lot worse?

You boys want to play games? Go ahead. Let's see who breaks first. Me, or you?

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Damon

Oh, you know the rules, bad girls don't get nice jewelry.

You took my ring. I'm devastated. And bored. Can I go back to solitary now?

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I said, I'm going to kill you!

Damon

Bingo! See? There's a little rage. I should have figured out that'd be the first emotion that came out of you. I tend to pull that out of people.

Elena, look at me. We don't want to do this, okay? You can stop this right now. It's your choice.

Kind of funny, actually, you being the one to pull back the curtain. I bet part of you enjoys it since, you know, I dumped you and all.

Damon

Wow. That was downright vindictive. See? I think now we're breaking through that tough candy shell and getting into the ooey-gooey rich center of your humanity. This is good. I think we should shine some light on the subject.

Let me guess... this is gonna hurt you a lot more than it hurts me.

Look, I know what you're going through. After all you've done, you're afraid to face the guilt you'll feel if you turn your emotions back on. The only way we can help you is to make the alternative hurt even worse.

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So that went well.

Damon

Every other vampire turns it on, no problem. You kill. You feed. You do all the awful things that a vampire does. And then when you're done, you turn it back on. Why is she being so stubborn?

Because she has nothing to come back to. Her home's gone. Her family's gone. She alienated her friends. She destroyed her relationships.

Damon

No. She wants to come back. Scaring the hell out of her should have worked. She's smart. She know we're not gonna hurt her.

All right. So we get somebody else, somebody who would really hurt her.

Damon

Who? Katherine?

Think about it. She's the reason Jeremy's dead, right? So if anybody's gonna provoke an emotion, it's her.

Damon

So we call her and then what? Beg her to help us out of the kindness of her own heart. You kidding me?

Katherine was just abandoned by Elijah. She has nothing. She has no one. We invite her into our house to come torture Elena. There's no way she's gonna turn that down.

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Damon

Seriously. You can't knock?

Sorry. I didn't realize we were standing on formalities.

Rebekah

What the hell are you doing here?

You didn't get the memo? I'm here to talk some sense into poor emotionless Elena.

Matt

Are you out of your mind?

Damon

You got a better idea, Prom King? Unless you want me to lock you up in there with her, I suggest you shut up and let the adults handle this.

Rebekah

Well, it looks like the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

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Damon

Enough. You are acting like a little spoiled brat. You know that? You think that we can't punish you. Maybe not. But I can sure punish him.

Matt

(weakly) Elena.

Seriously you think that this is...

Damon

Shut up. I'm done playing nice. Turn your emotions back on right now, Elena, or so help me, God, I will give you something to be sad about. I will kill him right here in front of you.

Damon.

Damon

Don't "Damon" me. If she doesn't love anyone, fine. Prove it. And if I'm wrong, what difference does it make? One less bus boy.

Matt

Elena...

Your bluffing.

Damon

(snaps Matt's neck, causing Elena to gasp in horror) How about now. Feel anything now? You angry I just turned your buddy into road kill? Or are you sad that the guy that everybody loves is just a bag of bones? Remember when he was a little kid, huh? Warm heart, big, goofy smile, his whole life ahead of him. I guess it was a good idea that he wearing this. (on Matt's hand is a Gilbert ring)

Oh, God, Matt.

Damon

You feel that weight lifting off your chest? That's joy. Because your friend isn't dead. That's emotion, Elena. That's humanity.

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Damon

You ok?

No. I'm not ok. But I will get better.