Stefan Salvatore quotes from The Vampire Diaries

Damon

Stefan, let's be serious for a second. You spent the last century and a half being a poster child for Prozac, and now you expect me to believe that this "new you" has nothing to do with human blood? Nothing?

Stefan

I'm clean.

Damon

You're lying!

Stefan

Believe what you want.

Damon

Well, well...he's a liar and a thief. So, when were you gonna share?

Stefan

Go ahead. Help yourself.

Damon

No, no, I'm talking about the fact that you're a closet blood junkie.

Damon

Just remember, we're trying to keep a low profile. Why don't you just walk up to Sheriff Forbes and ask her to tap a vein?

Stefan

Have my actions negatively impacted you? Whoo... I can't imagine what that must feel like.

Damon

You've been off the human stuff for years, Stefan. If you're having trouble controlling...

Stefan

I'm not having any trouble.

Damon

Who do you think you're talking to? I know what it's like! That "Jekyll and Hyde' feeling... There's that switch - sometimes it goes off and you snap...

Elena

This is ridiculous.

Stefan

You're only saying that because you don't know how to do it.

Elena

Sorry only one of us was around when the dance was invented.

Stefan

Ouch! (twirls Elena and dips)

Oh - no! No, no, no. There's no touching during this part. It's about the simple intimacy of the near touch.

Stefan

If you ask me, the "near touch" is over-rated.

Stefan

What's going on in here?

Damon

Just filling Elena in on your extra-curricular activities.

Stefan

(scoffs) What are you talking about?

Elena

I know about the blood, Stefan.

Damon

I'm gonna... I'll be downstairs. Drinking.

Stefan

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not very good to be around, right now. I'm a little bit on edge. I've been drinking the human stuff, and it's really screwing with my head. She knows now! She wasn't supposed to find out, I didn't want her to find out, now everything's ruined.

Amber

You seem sad.

Stefan

I'm not sad! I'm FREAKING. HUNGRY.

Stefan

I don't hurt people. I don't do that. I'm the good brother.

Amber

Do you want to hurt me?

Stefan

I want to kill you. I want to rip into your skin, and then I want to feed on your blood. Under your skin...pulsating, flowing. Your carotid artery...right there. If you puncture this just right, you can control the blood flow. Takes practice, but it doesn't have to make a mess. You don't have to waste any.

Amber

What's stopping you?

Stefan

If I do this...if I give in... then there's no going back.

Amber

Then don't.

Stefan

What's your name?

Amber

Amber.

Stefan

Listen to me, Amber. I need you to be afraid of me. I need you to run like hell, do you understand me?! Run. Run! Now!

Amber

(screams and runs)

Stefan

(runs after her and catches her)

Amber

(screams) I thought you said to run!

Stefan

I changed my mind. (feeds on her)

Stefan

You shouldn't be here.

Elena

I know.

Stefan

Now you know.

Elena

That wasn't you.

Stefan

Oh, it was absolutely me. A monster...a predator. It's who I am, Elena.

Elena

That's what the blood makes you.

Stefan

The blood brings out what's inside of me, and if you think any differently then you're an idiot!

Elena

I know this isn't you, Stefan.

Stefan

I wanted to drain every ounce of blood from that girl's body.

Elena

No...

Stefan

It's who I am, Elena!

Elena

No, you can't scare me off.

Stefan

Why would you risk it? Why would you come here?

Elena

Because I did this! This is my fault! I'm the one who made you drink the blood...

Stefan

All you did was expose me to who I really am!

Elena

This isn't you.

Stefan

STOP SAYING THAT! (tries to compose himself) Don't get any closer to me...

Elena

I'm not going to let this happen to you.

Stefan

Stop.

Elena

Stefan, I'm not going to give up on you. I believe in you...

Stefan

STOP! (slams her against the wall) Stop! (hits the wall behind her)

Elena

(gasps loudly)

Stefan

(realizing what he's done) I'm so sorry.

Elena

It's okay... It's okay...

Stefan

(sobs)... I don't know what's happening to me...

Elena

It's okay, Stefan. Shhh...it's okay. It's okay. (starts crying) You're gonna be okay... (stabs him with a vervain tranquilizer)

Damon

The sun hurts my eyes.

Stefan

That's part of it. The muscle aches, the sick feeling. Emily says it's our bodies pushing us to feed; to complete the transition.

Damon

That's not gonna happen.

Stefan

Is that your choice, then? To die, instead?

Damon

Isn't it yours? This was all to be with Katherine. She's gone. I want it over.

Stefan

You're taking a stupid risk. I could hurt you.

Elena

Then I'm stupid.

Stefan

I don't want to survive... after what I've done, I just want it to be over.

(stands when Stefan appears in the doorway) Dear God...

Stefan

Even in our death, you only feel shame?

You're one of them now...

Stefan

No. Father, I came to say goodbye.

I watched you die...

Stefan

You were there when we were shot?

I pulled the trigger myself.

Stefan

...You killed your own sons?

You were both dead to me the moment you sided with the vampires. I only thank God that your mother isn't alive to see the disgrace you've become.

You've transitioned.

Stefan

You'd have rather found me dead?

Katherine saved my life once. I owed her. But that doesn't mean I'd wish her curse on anyone.

Stefan

It feels more like a gift.

That will change.

Stefan

Why is that?

Because even in death, your heart is pure, Stefan. I sense that about you. That will be your curse.

Stefan

You don't understand, Elena.

Elena

Then tell me.

Stefan

It hurts me. It hurts me, knowing what I've done. And that pain - that pain is with me all the time. And every day I think that if I just...if I just give myself over to the blood, I can make that pain stop. It would be that easy. And every day I fight that. And I am so terrified that one day...I not going to want to fight that anymore more, Elena. And the next time I hurt somebody, it could be you.