1. “It’s the most real thing I’ve ever felt in my entire life. I love you, Damon.”
2. Elena: You put me in a position where I have to defend you again. Where I have to go against every single thing I believe in again. Because I love you! Damon: Then stop loving me! Elena: I can’t!
3. “I would write, Dear Diary, Today I convinced myself it’s ok to give up. Stick with the status quo, now just isn’t the time. But my reasons aren’t reasons, they’re excuses, and the truth is, I’m scared Stefan.”
4. “I want so much to make things right but every instinct in my body is telling me to be careful. What you don’t know can hurt you.”
5. “When someone asks ‘How are you?’, they really don’t want an answer.”
6. “Cut him some slack. He lost his brother. Granted said brother was a soulless homicidal maniac, but still.”
7. Damon: No, I’m not done. And I will never be done. I am not a nice person. I should not have to stand in front of the entire town and pretend to be a nice person. This is Liz having a last laugh from the great beyond. Elena: Hey, you are nice… Damon…Ish.
8. “You’re going to think that the pain will never end, but it will. But first you have to let it all in. You can’t fight it, it’s bigger than you.”
9. “You know what? Friends don’t manipulate friends. They help each other.”
10. “Dear Diary, I made it through the day. I must have said ‘I’m fine, thanks’ at least 37 times. And I didn’t mean it once. But no one noticed.”
11. “Peace exists. It lives in everything we hold, dear. That is the promise of peace, that one day, after a long life, we found each other again.”
12. “He got under my skin and no matter what I do, I can’t shake him.”
13. “When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.”
14. “Dear diary, I`m not a believer. People are born, they grow old and then they die. That`s the world we live in, but how can I deny what`s right in front of me? Someone who never grows old, never gets hurt.”
15. “I’m human. I have to do human stuff. Otherwise, I’m going to go crazy.”
16. “[to Damon] So look, I don’t know what we were, or are, or are supposed to be. All I know is I want to see you.”
17. “He would never give up on me. I’m not gonna give up on hime.”
18. “So was Kai right about me? By turning into a vampire, I completely changed?”
19. Elena: Jeremy can’t live with me, Stefan wants to fix me, and Caroline flat out admitted that she doesn’t like me this way. Think it’s safe to say that I’m not so great at this vampire thing. Damon: You want to know what I think? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you more alive.
20. “I thought you were gonna bring Jeremy back, but turns out you were just a brain washed crazy person.”
21. “Just get out of here, don’t look back.”
22. “I’m not blaming you, Damon. I’ve accepted the fact that you’re a self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities.”
23. “Did I forget to mention earlier when we were talking about my birthmother, the one that gave me up. Her name was Isobel. Go ahead, reminisce about how you killed her.”
24. Elena: How come you’re so much better at controlling it? Stefan: Because I’m so much worse when I don’t.
25. “Missing Bonnie makes me sad Jer. Missing Damon makes me dangerous.”
26. “We’re moving on with our lives, together, as functional vampires.”
27. “I used to think the worst feeling in the world was losing someone you love, but I was wrong. The worst feeling in the world is the moment that you realize you’ve lost yourself.”
28. “People are going to stop giving you breaks, Jeremy. They just don’t care anymore. They don’t remember that our parents are dead; they have their own lives to deal with. The rest of the world has moved on.”
29. “The more I have to think about, the less time I have to miss Bonnie.”
30. Elena: You memorized my breakup? Caroline: Of course I did.
31. Elena: Jeremy why would you even risk it? Jeremy: Because she looks good in a bikini.
32. Elena: You know this’ll never not be weird. Alaric: What that some ancient witch turned me into a vampire or that 4 months ago I rose from the dead? Elena: That you’re my college professor.
33. “You’ve been given a chance to start over in the absence of the one who defined you.”
34. “First rule of being a vampire is realizing how awesome you are.”
35. Elena: Is this presentable attire by 1903 standards? Damon: Whoa, who said you were coming? Elena: To meet the woman who gave birth to the two epic loves of my life? Me.
36. “I don’t care. Life’s too short. Immortal or not, I don’t wanna waste another minute.”
37. “You’re the one whose getting me through this, no matter who teaches me how to feed.”
38. Alaric: Damon is going to kill me. Elena: You’re un-killable. Alaric: Doesn’t mean he won’t try!
39. “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.”
40. “Maybe you’re not the right person to be teaching Stefan about self control.”
41. “I didn’t sleep with Damon because of the sire bond. I slept with Damon because I’m in love with him.”
42. “Our actions are what set things in motion, but we have to live with that.”
43. “Damon is like a dog with a bone.”
44. Elena: Everything you’ve been doing for Bonnie…thank you. Damon: She’d do it for us.
45. “I forgive you. You weren’t born evil. Life made you that way.”
46. “I …. don’t think it’s vain to say that I am beautiful. If I did not know I was, I would have to have never looked in a mirror or heard a compliment.”
47. “Breathe, eat, sleep, wake up, and then do it all over again until one day it’s not as hard anymore.”
48. Elena: Our lives are so weird. Jeremy: That’s the understatement of the century.
49. Elena: Savannah’s not your home Stefan. It’s an escape, a hiding place. This is your home. Stefan: No this was my home, but I can no longer enter its borders therefore I have a new home. Elena: So you’re just gonna throw in the towel and go back to your new fake life?
50. “I’m not gonna be one of those pathetic girls whose world stops just because of some guy.”
51. “That’s what love should be. You should love the person that makes you glad to be alive.”
52. “There’s more to me than just gloomy graveyard girl.”
53. “The worst feeling is the moment that you realize you’ve lost yourself.”
54. “I am not sorry that i’m in love with you.”
55. “We met and we talked and it was epic. Then the sun came up and reality set in.”
56. Elena: I wanna remember. Damon: Well you’re a day late and a dollar short honey. Elena: I mean I wanna try. Knowing there is this whole piece of my life missing it’s driving me crazy, ok? So I have to at least try to get it back.
57. “Stop acting like i’m perfect. I’ve done horrible things too.”
58. “The worst day of loving someone is the day that you lose them.”
59. “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Oh my God… Did I just say ‘cross that bridge?”
60. Damon: Things are going to be awfully dull around here without you. Elena: No they’re not, Damon, because you’re not going to sit around waiting for me.
61. “You need to disappear. Or evaporate. Or do whatever it is that ghosts do.”
62. “Dear Diary, this morning is different. I can sense it. Feel it.”
63. Elena: You should’ve brought me with you. Well first you should’ve told me Bonnie was alive and then you should’ve brought me with you. Damon: Well Ric had more frequent flyer miles…and Ric didn’t deliberately forget our entire relationship.
64. Damon: You could’ve just told me what to do. Elena: I knew what you were going to do. Damon: You knew that the evil, selfish Damon Salvatore would give up the love of his life to save her best friend. Elena: I knew that the love of my life would stand by his best friend even if it meant having to live without me for a little while.
65. “All you can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes, you invite it in. Because you need it. I need it.”
66. “We are still bad for each other and we are still broken up.”
67. “Getting out of bed is dangerous these days, but we have to live our lives.”
68. “Smiling doesn’t always mean you’re happy. Sometimes it simple means that you are a strong person.”
69. “But then she remembered something else, just a flash, looking up at Damon’s face in the woods and feeling such—such excitement, such affinity with him. As if he understood the flame that burned inside her as nobody else ever could.”
70. Elena: So what do you want to do? Damon: I want to throw you back in my bed and never let you leave. Elena: So do it.
71. “I feel good, which is rare, so i’ve decided to go with it. Fly free, walk on sunshine, all that stuff.”
72. “I’m playing with fire; with something I don’t understand.”
73. Elena: What was that? Damon: Uh it’s my audition tape for Real World London. Fingers crossed, I think I’m gonna make it!
74. “Movie night is supposed to be a distraction. Tomorrow we can return to our regularly scheduled drama.”
75. “I’ll survive. Somehow, i always do.”
76. “I won’t love a ghost for the rest of my life.”
77. Stefan: You censor your journal? Pretty sure that’s against journal rules. Elena: And I’m pretty sure you’re not the journal police.