Elena Gilbert: I realized that I'd just be writing things that I should be telling you.

Stefan Salvatore: What would you write?

Elena Gilbert: I would write: "Dear diary, today I convinced myself that it's okay to give up. Don't take risks. Stick with the status quo, no drama. Now is just not the time." But my reasons aren't reasons, they're excuses. All I'm doing is hiding from the truth. And the truth is that... I'm scared, Stefan. I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for even one moment... that the world's just gonna come crashing down... and I don't know if I can survive that.

Stefan Salvatore: Do you wanna know what I would write? "I met a girl. We talked. It was epic. Then the sun came up and reality set in." Well, this is reality. Right here.

(They kiss...)