Damon Salvatore quotes from The Vampire Diaries

Damon

Okay, I'll start. I know Alaric eternal-sunshined our relationship out of your brain, but please, please tell me it's coming back. Or at least part of it, because imagining this exact moment is what got me through the last few months.

Elena

I'm not sure what to say...

Damon

Easy! So easy! Just say that you missed me as much as I missed you.

Elena

Damon, I know that I loved you.

Damon

Yeah!

Elena

And I know that, apparently, I forgave you for all the awful things that you did...

Damon

Yeah.

Elena

But I just don't remember it. I'm sorry, I just don't...feel it anymore.

Damon

All the terrible things I did to people Elena cared about, let's see... I turned Caroline into my own personal blood juice box, I turned Matt's sister into a vampire, and threatened to kill Bon-Bon a couple times.

Alaric

More than a couple.

Damon

Subjective - sometimes I was being funny.

Alaric

You killed Stefan's best friend - at his birthday party...

Damon

An unfortunate coincidence.

Alaric

And then you snapped Jeremy's neck when Elena said she'd never love you...

Damon

On second thought, let's focus on all of the charming, heroic things you obliterated from my girl's mind.

Elena

Do you want me to feel guilty? Because, trust me Damon, I do, okay? I feel horrible, and I'm sorry, but I don't... I don't know what to tell you. What do you want me to say? I don't remember us!

Damon

I do! And no matter how much I missed you or how much pain I was in, I never would have erased everything we ever had! Even if I was drowning in grief, I'd rather hang on to every moment that I ever held you, or every laugh that I ever heard, every shred of happiness that we ever had. I would rather spend every moment in agony than erase the memory of you.

Elena

I remembered something out there. Just bits and pieces, but, um...there were these stars, and then it...it started to rain...

Damon

When you became a vampire, part of me was thrilled. Because suddenly there was this possibility I could have you in my life forever. And then the other part of me was devastated, because I realized you'd lost the life that you wanted to have...

Elena

It started to rain, and then... What happened, Damon?

Damon

And since I've been gone, you've gotten part of that life back. You're thriving, you're happy. Yeah, sure, maybe you'd be happy if we gave it another chance, but...the truth is, you're better off without me.

Elena

What are you talking about?

Damon

I died. You started over. I need you to live your life. Be happy. I love you, Elena. Enough to let you go.

Elena

(pauses) It started to rain... And...what?

Damon

It got cold and muddy. You were miserable, so we got in the car and we drove home.

Elena

You should have brought me with you. Well, first you should have told me that Bonnie was alive. And then you should have brought me with you.

Damon

Well Ric had more frequent flyer miles, and Ric didn't deliberately forget our entire relationship.

Elena

(pause) Yeah, I deserved that.

Elena

So you and Bonnie spent the last four months together?

Damon

Yeah.

Elena

What did you do?

Damon

Bickered, mostly. Cooked. Ate. We went through a Tetris phase, but I beat her and she got mad. (pause) We talked. A lot. Apparently there are a lot of words in the english language, and Bonnie knows just about all of them.

Elena

Yep. I know this is gonna sound...pretty strange, but...I'm really happy that the two of you had eachother.

Damon

She sacrificed herself so I could come back. (pauses) Wow. And when she wasn't talking she was listening. She's listen for hours and hours and hours. So...when the opportunity presented itself for me to come back...she made sure I took it.

Elena

What did you talk about?

Damon

(looks at her) What do you think?

Elena

I broke up with Liam.

Damon

Doctor Future-Humanitarian-Award wasn't good enough? What went wrong?

Elena

(looks at him) What do you think? (sighs) Look, I'm at a crossroads right now, where I could go live my life the way I think I probably should - be successful and safe, and probably very happy. Or I could risk all of that for this tiny glimmer of a feeling inside that...I just can't shake.

Damon

Well, Robert Frost...what's it gonna be?

Elena

(pauses) I don't know.

Damon

(sighs)

Elena

But I do know someone who could give me some pretty sound advice. Any chance you'd be willing to help me bring my best friend Bonnie back, so I could ask her?

Damon

(nods) Sure.

Damon

If Stefan says he's got it, he's got it.

Bonnie

Do you really believe that or is that just some excuse to continue your slow crawl towards rock bottom?

Damon

Do you know how many days need to tick by before I see Elena again? Twenty-two thousand, nine hundred and sixty one days, and that's if you get some old person's disease. I have not even begun to approach rock bottom.

Damon

Every time I look at you all I see is NOT Elena.

Bonnie

I'm so sorry this happened, but I lost Elena too, Damon. And you're one of the few reminders I have of her to hold on to so you can either resent me or love me, but you're stuck with me.

Bonnie

Guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

Damon

Hey! I do not go behind people's backs and torture them. I like my enemies to look me in the eye and see the depth of my rage.

Damon

Wow. Did I ever mention I like your style?

Stefan

I had a feeling we were going to have to do this the hard way.

Damon

Best...Thanksgiving...ever.

Stefan

How many times do you get a second chance to deliver your mother’s eulogy?

Damon

Good point, brother. How’s this? Lily, you were a terrible mother when you were alive and you were a terrible mother when you were dead. [to Stefan] You’re right. That does feel good.

It’s just us. Beau couldn’t bring himself to say goodbye.

Damon

I’m sure he just couldn’t find the right words to say.

Damon

Now, I’m just going to loosen these love knots a little bit. Just to get his phone. Okay?

Make sure he behaves.

Stefan

You okay?

Damon

Brother, I’m so full of werewolf toxin I can’t even feel my face A little vervain is not going to hurt me now.