"I don't choose the brother. I don't choose the humanity.
"You want to know the secret no one tells you about being the doppelgänger? It’s not the running. It’s not the dying. It’s the math. Every day, you have to calculate exactly how much of your heart to give to one brother so the other doesn't shatter. You have to measure your own happiness in teaspoons, because if you take a whole cup... someone pays for it in blood. the vampire diaries monologue
"When I was human, I thought the hardest thing in the world was letting go. I thought grief was a pit with no bottom. I buried my parents on a Tuesday, and by Friday, I had already forgotten what my mother’s laugh sounded like. I remember thinking... 'If this is what life is, I don't want it.' "I don't choose the brother
"I spent three centuries of lifetimes being someone’s destiny. Katherine’s shadow. The universe’s pawn. But here’s my final confession..." It’s not the running
The Anchor and the Flame