Trust is earned - I can't just magically hand it over.
TrustElena Gilbert in The Vampire Diaries, Season 1 Episode 4Elena: "Why don't you ever let anyone see the good in you?"
Damon: "When people see good they expect good. And I don't wanna live up to anyone's expectations."
I'm trusting you. Don't make me regret it.
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesWhen someone asks "How are you?," they really don't want an answer.
Elena Gilbert in The Vampire Diaries, Season 1 Episode 1He's your first love. I intend to be your last... however long it takes.
Love declerationsNiklaus Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries, Season 4 Episode 23I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated.
LoveDamon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries, Season 1 Episode 6What difference does it make? Because in the end, when you lose somebody, every candle, every prayer is not going to make up for the fact that the only thing you have left is a hole in your life where that somebody you cared about used to be.
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries, Season 4When it's real, you can't walk away.
Lexi Branson in The Vampire DiariesNo one hurts my family and lives. No one!
Elijah Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries, Season 1 Episode 6He's your first love. I intend to be your last.
Love declerationsNiklaus Mikaelson in The Vampire DiariesThe only one I can count on is me.
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesI will always protect you. You have my word on that.
Elijah Mikaelson in The Vampire DiariesIt's not a crime to love what you cannot explain.
Niklaus Mikaelson in The Vampire DiariesWhen you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
Breakup, LossElena Gilbert in The Vampire DiariesGirl: "Every artist has a story, you know?"
Klaus: "And what do you suppose his story is?"
Girl: "He's angry, dark, doesn't feel safe and doesn't know what to do about it. He wishes he would control his demons. Instead of having his demons control him. He's lost... alone."
And it's because I love you. I can't be Selfish with you.
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesWhenever you will go to far, I will be there to pull you back - every second, every day.
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesTrue love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, then it's the most beautiful lie we have...
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesI have a secret, a big. But I've never spoken aloud. It would not change anything! It would do me no good or can adopt a puppy. I can not be what other people want me to be. As they would have me. That's who I am You are my existential crisis. Should I kill you or not? But I have to Jessica, because I'm not human. And I miss it. I miss it more than anything in the world. That is my secret. but there is only so much pain, the one you can bear.
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesThe worst day of loving someone, is the day that you lose them.
Elena Gilbert in The Vampire DiariesStefan: "We came for you! We tried to save you!"
Katherine: "I didn't want to be saved!"
Stefan: "So then we died for nothing! For nothing!"
Katherine: "No Stefan, you died for Love."
Because in the end, when you lose somebody, every candle, every prayer is not going to make up for the fact that the only thing you have left is a hole in your life where that somebody that you cared about used to be.
BreakupDamon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesI believe that when you love someone and that person loves you in return, you're uniquely vulnerable. They have a power to hurt you like nothing else.
Elijah Mikaelson in The Vampire DiariesHe got under my skin and no matter what I do, I can't shake him.
Falling in loveElena Gilbert in The Vampire DiariesI love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you.
Love declerationsDamon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries, Season 2 Episode 8We all bear scars, mine just happen to be more visible than most.
ScarsRebekah Mikaelson in The Vampire DiariesThere is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.
Ideas, MotivationDamon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesI want you to get everything you're looking for, but now I want you to forget, that this happened
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesThat is the promise of peace, that one day after a long life we find each other again.
Elena Gilbert in The Vampire Diaries, Season 8 Episode 16Please don't ask me to have hope. Hope hurts, and I don't want to hurt anymore.
HopeBonnie Bennett in The Vampire Diaries, Season 8I can't be what other people want me to be. What she want's me to be. This is who I am. I'm not human and I miss it, I miss it more than anything in the world.
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesI love you, Stefan. Hold on to that. Never let that go.
Elena Gilbert in The Vampire DiariesDon't underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the poorest hearts are drawn to it.
DarknessNiklaus Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries, Season 4The Salvatores may fight like Dogs, but in the end they would die for each other.
Rebekah Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries, Season 3 Episode 18The worst day of loving someone is the day that you lose them.
Elena Gilbert in The Vampire Diaries, Season 4 Episode 2You are everything I didn't know I was looking for.
Kai Parker in The Vampire DiariesEvil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.
L.J. Smith in The Vampire Diaries - The AwakeningIt's called dignity. Have some. It's free.
Bonnie Bennett in The Vampire DiariesThere's always a choice. Whenever you make one, someone else suffers.
Bonnie Bennett in The Vampire DiariesSee, when your family decides that you're nothing but an irredeemable piece of trash, well, guess the best thing to do is prove them right, right?
Kai Parker in The Vampire Diaries, Season 6 Episode 22Jeremy don't trust Vicki!
Annabelle Johnson in The Vampire Diaries, Season 3 Episode 2I came first. Vampires are nothing more than a disgusting perversion of me. I’m unkillable, I’m immortal, and I’m psychic, and, to function, I need human blood. But don’t ever call me a vampire.
Silas in The Vampire Diaries, Season 5 Episode 1I would die 100 times over just to have you standing here alive, in front of me.
Bonnie Bennett in The Vampire DiariesI have always wanted to be loved by someone in the way that you loved me. And I would rather have these memories than a future where I destroy them.
Bonnie Bennett in The Vampire DiariesThe only person I can count on is me!
Damon Salvatore in The Vampire DiariesHe's very capable of being a first-rate Jackass.
Elena Gilbert in The Vampire DiariesLook, I get why you like her. I mean, I have a soft spot for brunettes, too. What I don't get is why she likes you.
Silas in The Vampire Diaries, Season 5 Episode 2So I'm gonna die? Is that what you're trying to tell me? Because I've done it once or twice before and it's not all that fun.
Bonnie Bennett in The Vampire Diaries