The Vampire Diaries (TV Series)
Pilot (2009)
Paul Wesley: Stefan Salvatore
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Quotes
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Damon Salvatore : Your hair's different, I like it.
Stefan Salvatore : It's been 15 years, Damon.
Damon Salvatore : Thank God! Couldn't take another day of the 90's. That horrible grunge look did not suit you. Remember Stefan, it's important to stay away from fads.
Stefan Salvatore : What are you doing here?
Damon Salvatore : I missed my little brother.
Stefan Salvatore : You hate small towns, they're boring, there's nothing for you to do.
Damon Salvatore : I've been keeping myself busy.
Stefan Salvatore : You left that girl alive tonight. That was very careless of you.
Damon Salvatore : Yeah, that could be a problem... for you.
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Stefan Salvatore : Crow's a bit much, don't you think?
Damon Salvatore : Wait till you see what I can do with the fog.
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Stefan Salvatore : I know it's late. But uh... I needed to know that you were okay.
Elena Gilbert : You know, for months, that's all anyone's wondered about me. If I'll be okay.
Stefan Salvatore : What do you tell them?
Elena Gilbert : That I'll be fine.
Stefan Salvatore : Do you ever mean it?
Elena Gilbert : Ask me tomorrow.
Elena Gilbert : It's warmer in the house. We can talk. Would you like to come in?
Stefan Salvatore : Yes.
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Stefan Salvatore : I wanted to apologize for my disappearing act earlier, I know it was... strange.
Elena Gilbert : No worries. I get it, blood makes you squeamish.
Stefan Salvatore : Um, something like that.
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Mr. Tanner : The battle of Willow Creek happened right here in our very Mystic Falls. How many casualties resulted in this battle? Miss Bennett?
Bonnie Bennett : A lot? I'm not sure, but like a whole lot.
Mr. Tanner : Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Miss Bennett. Mr. Donovan, maybe you can take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype.
Matt Donovan : That's okay, Mr. Tanner, I'm cool with it.
Mr. Tanner : Elena? Surely you can enlighten us on one of the town's most historic events.
Elena Gilbert : I'm sorry, I don't know.
Mr. Tanner : I was willing to be lenient last year, for obvious reasons, but the personal reasons ended with summer break.
Stefan Salvatore : There was 346 causalities, unless you're counting civilians.
Mr. Tanner : That's correct, Mr...?
Stefan Salvatore : Salvatore.
Mr. Tanner : Salvatore? Any relation to the original settlers here in Mystic Falls?
Stefan Salvatore : Distant.
Mr. Tanner : Very good, except that there were no civilian casualties in this battle.
Stefan Salvatore : Actually there were 27 civilian casualties. Confederate soldiers fired on the church believing it to be hiding weapons, but they were wrong. It's a night of great loss. The founders' records are stored in civil hall if you want to brush up on your facts... Mr. Tanner.
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[first lines]
Stefan Salvatore : For over a century I have lived in secret, hiding in the shadows, alone in the world, until now. I am a vampire. And this is my story.
Stefan Salvatore : I shouldn't have come home, I know the risk, but I had no choice, I have to know her.
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Elena Gilbert : You know, you're kinda the talk of the town.
Stefan Salvatore : Am I?
Elena Gilbert : Mysterious new guy, oh yeah.
Stefan Salvatore : Well, you have the mysterious thing going on too, with a twinge of sadness.
Elena Gilbert : What makes you think I'm sad?
Stefan Salvatore : Well, we did meet in a graveyard.
Elena Gilbert : Right. No, technically we met in the men's room.
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Damon Salvatore : I was impressed. I'll give it a six. Missing style, but I was pleasantly surprised. Very good with the whole face thing, it was good.
Stefan Salvatore : It's all fun and games, huh, Damon? But wherever you go, people die.
Damon Salvatore : That's a given.
Stefan Salvatore : Not here, I won't allow it.
Damon Salvatore : I take that as an invitation.
Stefan Salvatore : Damon, please, after all these years, can't we just give it a rest?
Damon Salvatore : I promised you an eternity of misery, so I'm just keeping my word.
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[in voiceover narration]
Elena Gilbert : Dear diary, I couldn't have been more wrong. I thought that I could smile, nod my way through it; pretend like it would all be okay.
Stefan Salvatore : I had a plan. I wanted to change who I was; create a life as someone new, someone without the past.
Elena Gilbert : Without the pain.
Stefan Salvatore , Elena Gilbert : Someone alive.
Elena Gilbert : But it's not that easy. The bad things stay with you.
Stefan Salvatore : They follow you. You can't escape them, as much as you want to.
Elena Gilbert : 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.
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Stefan Salvatore : How's your leg?
Elena Gilbert : Oh, it's fine. Just a scratch, barely. How did you know where I lived?
Stefan Salvatore : It's a small town. I asked the first person I saw. Um, I thought you might want this back.
Elena Gilbert : [he returns her journal] Oh, I must have dropped it. I... thank you.
Stefan Salvatore : Don't worry, I didn't... read it.
Elena Gilbert : No? Why not? Most people would have.
Stefan Salvatore : Well, I wouldn't want anyone to read mine.
Elena Gilbert : You keep a journal?
Stefan Salvatore : Yeah, if I don't write it down, I forget it. Memories are too important.
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Zach Salvatore : What's going on?
Stefan Salvatore : Someone else was attacked tonight, Zach, and it wasn't me.
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Stefan Salvatore : You okay?
Elena Gilbert : [gasping for breath] Were you following me?
Stefan Salvatore : No, I just... I saw you fall.
Elena Gilbert : Oh, and you just happened to be... hanging out in a cemetery.
Stefan Salvatore : I'm visiting, I have, uh, family here.
Elena Gilbert : [regretfully] Oh. Wow, tactless. I'm sorry. It's the fog. It's making me foggy. And then, back there,
[points]
Elena Gilbert : there was this... this bird. And it was all very Hitchcock for a second. That is the bird movie, right? The Hitchcock...?
[giggles self-consciously as he looks at her]
Elena Gilbert : I'm Elena.
Stefan Salvatore : I'm Stefan.
Elena Gilbert : I know. We have History together.
Stefan Salvatore : And English and French.
Elena Gilbert : Right.
[as he wipes away at a twig still clinging to her clothes:]
Elena Gilbert : Thanks.
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Stefan Salvatore : You won't be sad forever, Elena.
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Stefan Salvatore : I like Bonnie. She seems like a good friend.
Elena Gilbert : Best friend in the world.
Stefan Salvatore : And Matt, he can't seem to, uh, take his eyes off of us.
Elena Gilbert : Matt's that friend since childhood that you start dating because you owe it to yourselves to see if you can be more.
Stefan Salvatore : And?
Elena Gilbert : And then my parents died, and everything changes. Anyway, Matt and I, together we just, I don't know, it wasn't, um...
[looking for the right words]
Elena Gilbert : It wasn't...
Stefan Salvatore : Passionate.
Elena Gilbert : No. No, it wasn't passionate.
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Zach Salvatore : You promised.
Stefan Salvatore : [taking and glancing at a newspaper article] This was an animal attack.
Zach Salvatore : Don't give me that. I know the game. You tear them up enough, they always suspect an animal attack. You said you had it under control.
Stefan Salvatore : And I do.
Zach Salvatore : Please, Uncle Stefan. Mystic Falls is a different place now. It's been quiet here for years, but there are people who still remember. And you being here, it's just gonna stir things up.
Stefan Salvatore : It's not my intention.
Zach Salvatore : Then what is? Why did you come back? After all this time, why now?
Stefan Salvatore : I don't have to explain myself.
Zach Salvatore : I know that you can't change what you are. But you don't belong here anymore.
Stefan Salvatore : Where do I belong?
Zach Salvatore : I can't tell you what to do. But coming back here was a mistake.