- Caroline Forbes: Why don't you sparkle?
- Damon Salvatore: Because I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun.
- Damon Salvatore: What's so special about this Bella girl? Edward's so whipped.
- Caroline Forbes: You have to read the first book first, otherwise it won't make sense.
- Damon Salvatore: Uh, I miss Anne Rice, she was so on it.
- Caroline Forbes: Hey, how come you don't sparkle?
- Damon Salvatore: Because I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun.
- Caroline Forbes: Yeah, but you go in the sun.
- Damon Salvatore: I have a ring, it protects me. It's complicated.
- Caroline Forbes: [surveying her wounds in mirror] Will these bites turn me into a vampire?
- Damon Salvatore: It's more complicated than that. Now you have to feed on my blood, then die, then feed on human blood. A whole ordeal. This book, by the way, has it all wrong.
- Caroline Forbes: [wistfully] You can be very sweet when you want to be.
- Damon Salvatore: Yes, I can be sweet.
- Caroline Forbes: Are you gonna kill me?
- Damon Salvatore: Mm-hmm. But not yet.
- Caroline Forbes: Why not?
- Damon Salvatore: Because there's something I need you to do for me.
- Caroline Forbes: Anything.
- Damon Salvatore: How good are you at getting this little nose where it doesn't belong?
- Caroline Forbes: Oh, I'm excellent.
- [smiles up at him]
- Damon Salvatore: Mm.
- [kisses her]
- Damon Salvatore: Believe it or not, Stefan, some girls don't need my persuasion. Some girls just can't resist my good looks, my style and my charm, my unflinching ability to listen to... Taylor Swift.
- [and then, unexpectedly, stabs Stefan]
- Damon Salvatore: [after Stefan stabbed him through the T-shirt] This is John Varvatos, dude. Dick move.
- Stefan Salvatore: Look, there are things that you don't know... okay? Things that I want to tell you, but I can't. And I may never be able to. And I just need you to trust me.
- Elena Gilbert: Trust is earned. I can't just... magically hand it over.
- Damon Salvatore: [as Caroline tries on dress] No yellow. Jaundice. Go with the blue.
- Caroline Forbes: I don't like the blue.
- Damon Salvatore: Well, I do. And if I'm gonna be your date...
- Caroline Forbes: You cannot be my date. My mother is going to be there, and she is a very proud gun owner.
- Damon Salvatore: I went to a lot of trouble to make sure this party wasn't canceled. It's very important I be there.
- [intense hypnotic gaze:]
- Damon Salvatore: Take me along.
- Caroline Forbes: [swayed] You should come to the Founder's Party with me.
- Damon Salvatore: Not if you're wearing that dress.
- [Caroline gets rid of it with no argument]
- Damon Salvatore: [in front of mirror] It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.
- Stefan Salvatore: Yes. Being a 150-year-old teenager has been
- [toasts Damon with his drink]
- Stefan Salvatore: the height of my happiness.
- Elena Gilbert: Who was in the church that they wanted to save?
- Damon Salvatore: A woman, I guess. Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman?
- [smiles]
- Elena Gilbert: Look, I'm sorry that... you and Stefan have this thing between you, but I can't get in the middle of it, Damon. I just... I hope you two can work it out.
- Damon Salvatore: I hope so too.
- [smiles]
- Stefan Salvatore: Why would you cover your tracks?
- Damon Salvatore: I've decided to stay for a while. And I'm having way too much fun with you and Elena.
- Vicki Donovan: [explaining to Jeremy why she is there for him so late at night] I was thinking I can make one more mistake today. You still have seventeen minutes.
- [kisses him]
- Elena Gilbert: [to Damon, after seeing the bite marks all over Caroline's body] There is something seriously wrong with you! Stay away from her, or I will go straight to her mother, the Sheriff! Got that? Stay away from her!
- Tyler Lockwood: So, what you gonna buy me?
- Vicki Donovan: [scoffs] Some class. Oh, your parents are gone. I guess we can be close now.
- Tyler Lockwood: Well, what the hell does that mean?
- Vicki Donovan: You treat me like trash, and I'm sick of it.
- Tyler Lockwood: I don't think you're trash.
- Vicki Donovan: Then who are you taking to the Founder's Party?
- Tyler Lockwood: Vicki Donovan... do you want me to take you to the Founder's Party?
- Vicki Donovan: [smiling happily] No. It'll be stupid and lame.
- Tyler Lockwood: True. But it'll be less stupid and lame if you're there.
- [goes off]
- Jeremy Gilbert: [as Vicki is just too happy] You realize you had to ask him to ask you, right? You figure that if you dress up like a respectable young lady he'll finally treat you like one.
- Vicki Donovan: [her balloon burst] Screw you, Jeremy.
- [scoffs]
- Jeremy Gilbert: You know you're making the wrong choices, but you're making it anyway. It's sad.
- [she scoffs again]