“I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.”

“I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...”

“It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.”

“Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?""The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret”

“I am not an angel and I am not a spirit. I'm Elena Gilbert and I've been to the Other Side. And right now I'm ready to do whatever needs to be done, which seems to include kicking some ass!”

“Am I your special someone? Or just someone special?"--Janet”

“So I'm deputizing for the deputy, am I?, asked Connor with a grin.”