“Nothing that's worth anything is ever simple. That's what makes it worth it”

“War and hunting and chasing-that's all there is. That's life, Jenny-no one can escape it.”

“Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't . . . I don't think it's something anybody knows.”

“And then it was all so simple and natural. As if they both knew what to do without thinking-as if they'd always known what to do.”

“That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.”

“I love you," she said. "You made me fall in love with you. I don't care how tall you are or what color your hair is-I care about you. You make me laugh. You're smart. You're gentle. And you're real, you're a real person, not some jock with a facade that's going to fall apart when I get to know him. I know you already, and I love you, you idiot. I don't care what you do with toilet paper.”

“Stefan was the one who ... the one she loved. But he'd never understood that love was not singular. He'd never understood that she could be in love with Damon and that it would never change an atom's worth of her love for him. Or that his lack of understanding had been so wrenching and painful that she had felt torn in two different people at times.”