Elena Gilbert quotes from The Vampire Diaries

Elena

I have to go. I have a shift at the hospital.

Alaric

Since when?

Elena

Since Damon came back and I'm trying desperately to avoid him!

Damon

Look, I know why you did what you did. But it's not real. You know what's real? The way you felt for me. You once told me it was the most real thing you ever felt in your life.

Elena

Those feelings are gone.

Damon

Oh, come on, Elena. You've compelled enough people to know it's just a way of covering the truth. And no matter how badly you want it done, it doesn't make it any less of a lie.

Stefan

Look. He's been trapped over there alone for months. He just wants to see you.

Elena

Look. I get how I'm supposed to feel, but I know how I actually feel and I'm happy now. What if I look at him and my old feelings break through the compulsion?

Stefan

Well, they won't, but even if they did, is that such a bad thing?

Elena

Stefan...I kissed Liam last night.

Stefan

Oh, please forget that you told me that and definitely do not tell Damon that.

Elena

Because he's gonna kill him, right?! Just like he killed my brother.

Stefan

I was going to say because he'll be heartbroken.

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.

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.

Stefan

Hi

Elena

Hi. [Pause] What happened? Why am I here right now?

Stefan

I don't know about Bonnie, but Damon...Damon wanted to sacrifice everything to save you, to save this town. He was ready. I'm human now. He compelled me to leave. But he should have known better. I would never walk a day on this Earth as a human without taking vervain.[Flashback shows Stefan removing blood from his arm with a syringe]

Elena

I don't understand.

Damon

Not long now, demon spawn. I can hear that fire coming back this way.

Katherine

[Struggling against Damon] You love this, don't you?

Damon

You have no idea.

Stefan

I gave him my blood. The cure.

Elena

You what?

Stefan

[Flashback showing Stefan shoving Damon safely into the room off the tunnel] Without the cure, I'd start to age. I'd be dead soon enough.

Elena

So Damon's okay?

Stefan

He's okay.

Elena

[Gives a sob of relief, then realizes...] But...you, you're...

Stefan

I did what I had to do.

Katherine

No! No...Stefan, please...

Stefan

Burn in hell. [Stabs Katherine with bone dagger. He looks over at Damon] Good-bye, brother.

Elena

No, Stefan.

Stefan

Tonight I saw a side of Damon that I hadn't seen in a while. The older brother I looked up to. The son who enlisted in the Civil War to please his father. The Damon I knew when I was a boy. I wanted that Damon to live. And I wanted you to have an opportunity to get to know him. He's the better man. He's the right man. It's good to see you, Elena. One last time.

Bonnie

There she is.

Elena

Am I...

Bonnie

I did it. (Laughs) I broke the spell.

Elena

How?

Bonnie

It took some time, but I think I've finally figured this witch thing out.