Stefan Salvatore quotes from The Vampire Diaries

Stefan

Yep. This is happening! I'm gonna talk out loud to a...a crypt filled with my dead family. Everyone but you, Damon. Because wherever you are, it's not here. I gotta say...I'm not doing so great without you. I keep trying to start over, but...I can't get anywhere. Because I'm lost, brother. I'm lost.

Stefan

You've seen this before?

Stefan

(Groans) Oh god.

Stefan

I know it's late, but I needed to know if you're okay.

Elena

You know, for months, that's all everyone's wondered about me, if I'll be OK.

Stefan

What do you tell them?

Elena

That I'll be fine.

Stefan

Do you ever mean it?

Elena

Ask me tomorrow. (Stefan stares at her) It's warmer in the house, we can talk. Would you like to come in?

Stefan

(smiles) Yes.

You promised. (shows him the newspaper with the news of the attack)

Stefan

This was an animal attack.

Don't give me that. I know the game - you tear them up enough and they always suspect an animal attack. You said you had it under control.

Stefan

And I do.

Please, Uncle Stefan. Mystic Falls is a different place now. It's been quiet for years, but there are people who still remember. And you being here, it's just going to stir things up.

Stefan

It's not my intention.

Then what is? Why did you come back after all this time? Why now?

Stefan

I don't have to explain myself.

I know that you can't change who you are, but you don't belong in Mystic Falls anymore.

Stefan

Where do I belong?

I can't tell you what to do. But coming back here was a mistake.

Stefan

Damon

Damon

Hello, Brother.

Damon

Your hair's different; I like it.

Stefan

It's been 15 years, Damon.

Damon

Thank God! Couldn't take another day of the 90's. That horrible grunge look did not suit you. Remember Stefan, it's important to stay away from fads.

Stefan

What are you doing here?

Damon

I missed my little brother.

Stefan

You hate small towns; they're boring, there's nothing for you to do.

Damon

I've been keeping myself busy.

Stefan

You left that girl alive tonight. That was very careless of you.

Damon

Yeah, that could be a problem... for you.

Damon

I was impressed. I'll give it a six. Missing style, but I was pleasantly surprised. Very good with the whole face thing, it was good.

Stefan

It's all fun and games, huh, Damon? But wherever you go, people die.

Damon

That's a given.

Stefan

Not here, I won't allow it.

Damon

I take that as an invitation.

Stefan

Damon, please, after all these years, can't we just give it a rest?

Damon

I promised you an eternity of misery, so I'm just keeping my word.

Stefan

Stay away from Elena.

Damon

I take that as an invitation.

Damon

Were you successful? Did the powers of persuasion work? Remember if you don’t feed properly, none of those little tricks work right.

Stefan

How long was Elena here?

Damon

Are you worried, Stefan? Scared we may be doomed to repeat the past? Isn’t that why you play your little game ‘I’m a high school human’?

Stefan

I’m not playing any game.

Damon

Of course you are. We both know the closest you’ll ever get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it.

Elena

He (Damon) told me about your ex, Katherine?

Stefan

What did he say?

Elena

She broke your heart.

Stefan

It was a long time ago.

Elena

When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.

Stefan

Elena…

Elena

It's okay, Stefan. I get it. You have no idea how much I get it. Complicated brother? Check. Complicated Ex? Check. Too complicated to even contemplate dating? Double check. It's okay. We met and we talked and it was epic, but then the sun came up and reality set in.

Damon

You have two choices. You can feed and make her forget. Or you can let her run screaming "Vampire!" through the town square.

Stefan

That's what this is about? You wanna expose me?

Damon

No! I want you to remember who you are!

Stefan

Why? So what, so I'll feed, so I'll kill, so I'll remember what it's like to be brothers again? You know what, let her go. Let her tell everyone that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls, let them chain me up and let them drive a stake through my heart, 'cause then at least I'll be free of you.

Damon

It's good to be home. I think I might stay awhile, this town could use a bit of a wake up call, don't you think?

Stefan

What are you up to, Damon?

Damon

That's for me to know and to you to... dot, dot, dot.

Elena

So the thing is, I got home tonight planning on doing what I always do. Write in my diary, like I have been since my mother gave me one when I was 10. It's where I get everything out and it all goes in this one little book, that I hide on the 2nd shelf behind this really hideous ceramic mermaid. But then I realized I would just be writing things I should probably be talking about.

Stefan

What would you write?

Elena

I would write, Dear Diary, Today I convinced myself it's okay to give up. Don't take risks. Stick with the status quo, no drama. Now just isn't the time. But my reasons aren't reasons they're excuses. All I'm doing is hiding from the truth and the truth is, I'm scared Stefan. I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for one moment, that the my worlds going to come crashing down and I don't know if I'll be able to survive that.

Stefan

Do you want to know what I would write? I met a girl, we talked and it was epic. Then the sun came up and reality set in. Well, this is reality... right here.

Elena

That throw was insane! I didn't know you play football.

Stefan

I used to. It was a long time ago.

Elena

So why don't you try out for the team?

Stefan

Yeah, I don't think so.

Elena

So you don't like football?

Stefan

No, I love football; I think it's a great sport. But in this case I don't think football likes me. You saw Tyler over there, and we both know how Matt feels.

Elena

They don't know you. To them you're just mysterious loner guy. Wouldn't hurt to be a part of the team, make some friends.

Stefan

Says the girl who spends her alone-time writing in a cemetery.

Elena

Hey, come on, there's more to me than just gloomy graveyard girl. There's a whole other Elena you have yet to meet. She was into everything, very busy.

Stefan

Well I look forward to meeting her, and when will that be?

Elena

Soon. She's working on it.