Elena Gilbert (narration): Dear diary... I couldn't have been more wrong. I thought that I could smile and nod my way through it. Pretend like it would all be okay.

Stefan Salvatore (narration): I had a plan. I wanted to change who I was. Create a life as someone new. Someone without the past.

Elena: Without the pain.

Both: Someone alive.

Elena: But it's not that easy. The bad things stay with you.

Stefan: They follow you. You can't escape them... as much as you want to.

Elena: 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.