Matt Donovan quotes from The Vampire Diaries

Matt

Is there anything you're not good at?

Stefan

Double-dating. This is all kind of new to me. I usually keep to myself. I don't always fit in.

Matt

That's because you're that guy.

Stefan

What guy?

Matt

The guy who seems like he has everything, so the people that don't kind of run the other way.

Stefan

Is that what I seem like?

Matt

Pretty much.

Stefan

Hmm... What a dick!

Matt

I yelled at my mom last night. You know, I feel like the parent with the screwed up kid.

Caroline

Well, maybe she needed to hear it.

Matt

Yeah, but I worry that if I push too hard then she'll take off again, 'cause that's her M.O. Just like Vicki, who I haven't heard from since she left.

Caroline

Well, you can't control your mom, Matt, any more than you can control your sister.

Matt

I wish that she would just try, a little, you know. If she would just try to try, that would be okay.

Caroline

Maybe she'll surprise you. People have a tendency to do that. I should go before the roads get even worse from the storm.

Matt

Are you sure that you should be driving right now?

Caroline

I have to - it's my dad's boyfriend's daughter's birthday. We have a nontraditional traditional ritual.

Matt

Well, buckle up.

Tyler

The guy's not even subtle about it.

Matt

Who is that?

Tyler

It's not my mother.

Tyler

[To Matt] Hey, man. I'm so sorry. Look, I don't even know what happened.

Matt

It's okay, man.

Matt

She’s this amazing girl one minute and then this raging jealous freak the next.

Tyler

Look, you know what I think of Caroline Forbes. She’s an insecure, neurotic, bitchy little twit.

Matt

Hey!

Tyler

But the girl’s got heart. She means well. Just gotta take the good with the bad sometimes.

Matt

Elena?

Katherine

(as Elena) Matt? You look dashing.

Matt

I thought you said you aren't coming.

Katherine

I couldn't miss it. You really are hot in a suit. I'd love to just...

Jeremy

What are you doing?

Matt

I can't find my truck!

Jeremy

That's probably a sign you shouldn't be driving it.

Jeremy

You know, I don't remember her dying. I don't know if Caroline told you that when she told you everything.

Matt

Nah, she didn't.

Jeremy

Elena made them take that memory away from me - thought I "couldn't handle it." So whatever my last moment was with her...I don't have it.

Matt

I don't, either. I don't remember the last moment I had with Vicki before she was a vampire. When she was still my sister.

Bonnie

Listen to me, I know you wanna help and I know you miss your sister, but what you did was reckless and stupid.

Matt

I know, Bonnie. I know. But it worked - it was worth it.

Bonnie

You don’t want to be part of all this, Matt. You’re the only one of us who actually gets to live their life like a normal person. No matter how lost you feel, don’t forget that.

Matt

You can't just keep appearing like this. It freaks me out.

Vicki

I'm a ghost. It's all I got.

Elena

Just say it.

Matt

I just don't get it. Your thing with them.

Elena

I know it doesn't make sense. But at the beginning, after my parents died, there was something about being with Stefan that just, felt safe.

Matt

Safe? Elena, he's a vampire.

Elena

I know. Believe me, just saying it out loud, sounds crazy. But- It's like I knew that he would never, stop loving me. Like he would never-

Matt

What?

Elena

Die. Like he would never die.

Matt

Like your parents did. And Damon?

Elena

Damon just, sort of snuck up on me. He got under my skin and no matter what I do, I just, I can't shake him.

Matt

Once you fall in love with someone, I don't know, I don't know if you can ever shake them.

Damon

We use the quarterback to distract her. Just keep her talking.

Matt

How?

Damon

Act interested. She's lonely, desperate.

Caroline

Clearly, she slept with you.

Damon

No last minute attacks of pity for any of them.

Elena

Don't worry about me. Not after what happened to Bonnie's mom.

Damon

Barbie?

Caroline

Oh, Im ready. Anything that will free Tyler of his sire bond to Klaus.

Damon

Lost boy?

Matt

Do I have a choice?

Damon

Good point.

Elena

I'm sorry that I strung you along. I should have figured out what I wanted, and just been honest about it. And now I'm making the same mistakes with Stefan and Damon. It's not right, what I'm doing to them, either. I--I have to let one of them go.

Matt

Which one?

Matt

Why should she help you? All you've done is screw her over.

Elijah

And for that I am deeply ashamed. But know this--she could have been dead the instant I walked through that door tonight. So, Elena, I leave it to you to decide whether to trust me or not.

Elijah

Rebekah and Kol will honor the terms. If you return Klaus’ body to us, Elena will come to no harm.