“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your DESTINY is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”

           “Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your DESTINY is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”

        “ Well, everyone can’t be animal lovers. ” 

  Voicing it in true Elena fashion, insinuating with an indifferent tone, like stating the obvious   fact, that not entirely everyone in the room gets along too well with them. Then something,   be it the way his lips curl upward in that way or how his muscles moves under his sweater   when he walks toward her–– strikes a cord and she stumbles through her words. 

        “ Some of us are .. just bound to–– uhm.. not get along. ” 

                “ Noooyes… ? ” definitely has. cute actually.                 Aside for the squirrel. Yes, she knows, Stefan.  

    “ You and that squirrel would make a REALLY cute couple. I’m just saying. ”