Queen of Shadows ♕

#STEFCNS , a canon divergent , novel inspired character study on STEFAN SALVATORE from THE VAMPIRE DIARIES. medium to low activity. penned by sylas.

* tv show verse available w/ paul wesley as fc.

“ — do you know what the name SALVATORE means in italian, elena? it means salvation, saviour i'm named that, and for st. stephen, he was the first christian martyr, and i damned my brother to hell. ”

❛ i would let you rip me apart if it meant loving you. ❜

❛ this fear you feel? it won’t last. ❜

❛ you are my salvation. ❜

❛ i revolt you, don’t i? ❜

❛ get the hell away from me. ❜

❛ i want to sink my teeth into every inch of you. ❜

❛ i’ll be your dirty little secret, if that’s what you’re into. ❜

❛ worship me. until i tell you to stop. ❜

❛ don’t you know how sick with love i am for you? ❜

❛ fucking hit me already. ❜

❛ i would burn the world for you. ❜

❛ i don’t want to be good, no matter how hard you wish it. ❜

❛ i don’t know how you’ve bewitched me, but it needs to stop. ❜

❛ fix me. ❜

❛ they die for love, you kill for it. ❜

❛ you are mine, whether you agree or not. ❜

❛ do you like it when i bleed for you? ❜

❛ i will keep hurting. i will keep killing. anything to protect you. ❜

❛ i’m starved for you, morning and night. ❜

❛ now i get to ravish you. ❜

❛ i am your god and your executioner. ❜

❛ you are doing so well, my pet. ❜

❛ you’re my sweetest poison. ❜

❛ let’s do something about that mouth of yours. ❜

❛ your fascination with me will be your death. ❜

❛ you’re the monster that’s enticed me into your bed. ❜

❛ all you can say are pretty lies. ❜

❛ the fucked up thing is that it isn’t enough to just love you. ❜

❛ you’ve broken me. all i can think about is you. ❜

❛ you’ll beg for more. ❜

❛ an eternity with you would never satisfy me. ❜

❛ i would gladly let you drag me to hell. ❜

❛ everything i’ve done.. every horrible atrocity, it’s been for you. ❜

❛ you’re a fucking nightmare. kiss me. ❜

❛ feel grateful that i allow you to touch me. ❜

❛ every time your lips touch my skin, you burn me from the inside out. ❜

❛ there’s no black or white, only gray. ❜

❛ no one touches what’s mine. ❜

❛ make me indifferent, make me horrible. ❜

❛ i could never be the one to love you. i can only be the one that kills you. ❜

STEFAN SALVATORE

MISC THE VAMPIRE DIARIES SENTENCE MEME. this includes spoilers for the show so approach with care. change names and pronouns as you see fit.

"You want a love that consumes you. You want passion and adventure and even a little danger."

"He's your first love. I intend to be your last, however, long it takes."

"And honestly when I'm with her, I completely forget what I am."

"I've been in love. It's painful, pointless, and overrated."

"What happens when the one who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?"

"I like this. You... walking on eggshells around me because you think I'm going to explode. It's very suspensable."

"I do not go behind people's backs and torture them. I like my enemies to look me in the eye and see the depth of my rage."

"If I have to hear doppelgänger one more time, I'm going to have to learn how to spell it."

"I do believe in killing the messenger. Know why? Because it sends a message."

"Life is too cruel, if we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live?"

"Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness. No matter how easy it is to turn it off, it keeps trying to fight its way back in.Sometimes I let it."

"Kiss me or kill me. We both know you're only capable of one."

"People have been after me for a thousand years, but I'm always one step ahead."

"Sometimes the world turns good people into bad people."

"We live by a code of loyalty. We take care of each other. It's my duty and honor to help you. Please let me."

"Mother made us vampires. She didn't make us monsters. We did that to ourselves."

"Perhaps one day, in a year or even in a century. You'll turn up at my door and let me show you what the world has to offer."

"Do you have any idea how rare love is? In a thousand years, I have found it but twice, and when I have, I have honored it."

"You're a vampire, sweetheart. I don't think you'll ever be okay again."

"It's not a crime to love what you cannot explain."

"It's funny how one event can change the outcome of your entire life."

"We choose our own path. Our values and our actions, they define who we are."

“You know, over the years, I've had my share of friends, enemies, lovers, losses, and triumphs. With time, they all begin to run together, but you will find the real moments are vibrant. The rest just fades away. Your pain will fade.”

“A warrior fights for what they believe in. A warrior fights for his family.”

“but in the one moment you two could have chosen to stand by me, you chose to stand against me, to side with my enemies.”

“You don't arm yourself after war has been declared, (name). You build your army so big that no one dares pick the fight.”

Vampire 101 

(Feel free to edit like change it to first person or the gender)

“You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.”

“Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”

“You make me love you, and that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do.”

“Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens.”

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I’ll love you then.”

“I am catastrophically in love with you.”

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

“I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.”

“I know you aren’t perfect. But it’s a person’s imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”

“The things is, you don’t forfeit your whole world to prove your feelings to someone. You bring your worlds together. You get more world, not less.”

“Turns out there’s a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that’s exactly how it feels. There’s no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone’s going to be there to catch you.”

“He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.”

“Love didn’t make you weak, it made you stronger.”

“And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”

If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t

“Look at me. I choose you over everyone.”

“I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you.“

"My heart made its choice, and it chose you.”

“Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It’s a person. And we’re finally home.”

You look like my dream come true.’“

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”

“Love is when your weirdness matches up with someone else’s weirdness.”

“I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.”

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore.”

"I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.”

“Meeting your soulmate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before.”

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”

“I don’t want the world, I want you.”

“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.”

“The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers.”

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away.”

“I’m not trying to overthink things. I’m trying to be less careful. But you have to be your heart’s own goalie.”

“If we had our entire lives ahead of us I bet you’d get tired of me telling you how much I love you because I’m positive that’s the path we were heading on. But because we’re about to die, I want to say it as many times as I want—I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.”

My preference is simple—you.”

“"He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.“

“As much as I had wanted a love story out of a movie, I know now that movies can only hope to to capture this kind of love.”

“The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat — soft and persistent, underlying everything.”

“A thousand electric cars could run on how you feel when you know that the person you like likes you back. It feels incredible. Like it shouldn’t be possible. Of all the happy coincidences to ever exist, it’s one of the happiest.”

. "It struck me as kind of crazy, kind of amazing, that one person could make me feel so serene just by being.”

“I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life - whatever length - happy, by spending it with you.”

“You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. And you don’t even know it. You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.“

“I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”

“Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?”

“Nothing before you counts,and I can’t even imagine an after

"In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.”

“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

“In her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

“No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let’s start with forever.”

“Everything’s a game. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”

“Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.” 

“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.” 

“Who’s going to kick butt and take names and help her big sister get into all kinds of trouble someday?”

“Sometimes, I think the term bad influence was invented specifically with you in mind.” 

“We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.” 

“Why do I have to tell a story?”

“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.” 

“As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic.”

“He left you the fortune, and all he left us is you.” 

“Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.” 

“If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?” 

“The more complicated a person’s strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers. If you could keep someone looking at your knight, you could take them with a pawn. Look past the details. Past the complications.” 

“Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” 

“The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.” 

“Giving money to individuals does little.” 

“I’m a hypercompetitive, bisexual perfectionist who likes to win and looks like this. I’m no stranger to being hated” 

“I won’t let anyone hurt you ever again. You have my word.”

He thought he could protect me. He wanted to. He was touching me, and all I wanted was to let him. Let him protect me. Let him touch me.” 

“The first scone is what I like to call the practice scone.”

“It is not until the third—nay, fourth—scone that you develop any kind of scone-eating expertise.”

if there is one universal truth in the human experience, it is that a finely honed scone-eating palate does not just develop overnight.” 

“I wasn’t delusional. I wasn’t dreaming. I was an heiress.” 

“There were people out there who might live or die because of me, futures good or bad might be realized because of my choices. What right did I even have to be the one making them?” 

“But for the record, you’re a minor, and I’m still your legal guardian. The next time someone tries to shoot you, I damn well want to know.” 

“No feminism at the dinner table.”

“A person couldn’t be worthy of billions. It wasn’t possible—not for anyone, and definitely not for me.”

“I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.” 

“It might feel better to give to someone you know than a stranger, or to donate to an organization whose story brings a tear to your eye, but that’s your brain playing tricks on you. The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes.” 

“I agree. In his honor, I eat this scone.”

“…but if there is one universal truth in the human experience, it is that a finely honed scone-eating palate does not just develop overnight.”

“That’s the thing, Mystery Girl. I don’t think I’m turning anything into a riddle. I don’t think I have to. You are a riddle, a puzzle, a game.” 

“You deserve to feel safe in your own home. And I’ll help you with the foundation. I’ll teach you what you need to know to take this life like you were born to it. But this…us…”

“I will always protect you" 

“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.” 

“it would be a shame if we are related.”

“why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve” 

“I do simple things in complicated ways” 

“Passive-aggressive, sure, and petty.” 

“You know what they say about baptisms and fire.” 

The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.” 

“And my head of security didn’t want me in this room with her alone.” 

“Every day. The least you could have done was wake up while I was here, tragically backlit, unspeakably handsome, and waiting.” 

“I am an expert at not wanting to want things.”

“Your silence on the issue of people trying to kill you is deeply disturbing.” 

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius.” She is one of us. We protect her.” 

“sometimes it feels good to smack the hell out of something.” 

“My psychic senses are now attuned to that picture, and I’m getting some pretty clear messages about communing and abs.”

“Personally, I find this turn of events delightful,”

“She’s delightfully Machiavellian, and she hates to lose.”

“I told you that I was considering a mission trip. I am here to bring the love of God to these poor, backward billionaires. It’s an ugly job, but someone’s got to do it.” 

“But when he smiled, I still felt seven years old and about three inches tall.” 

“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.” 

“But on a more visceral level: I could have died.” 

“Don’t you dare rewrite history. What do you think it was like for me? Son after son—and every single one of you preferred my father.” 

“What about what other people deserve?” I asked vehemently. “Did my mother deserve to die without you there? Did she deserve to spend my entire life in love with a ghost?”

“Whatever it is you and the boys are up to—stop.” 

“Don’t be sorry. Be worthy of it.” 

“Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't” 

“You don’t have to kiss me. You don’t even have to like me, Heiress, but please don’t make me do this alone.” 

“Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.” 

“It’s not just clothing. It’s a message. You’re not deciding what to wear. You’re deciding what story you want your image to tell. Are you the ingenue, young and sweet? Do you dress to this world of wealth and wonders like you were born to it, or do you want to walk the line: the same but different, young but full of steel?”

They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here, and they’ll be a twisted, broken mess once you’re gone.” 

She isn’t a girl. She’s a whirlwind wrapped in a hurricane wrapped in steel.” 

inspired by @starsaroundscarsx​

“There is no science here, this is magic.”

“In that moment, I loved him. I didn’t want to, I mean, it terrified me, but for that moment, I loved him.”

“I’m at a crossroads right now, where I could go live my life the way I think I probably should — be successful and safe, and probably very happy. Or I could risk all of that for this tiny glimmer of a feeling inside that…I just can’t shake.”

“The worst day of loving someone is the day that you lose them.”

“We met and we talked and it was epic. Then the sun came up and reality set in.”

For once I don`t regret the day before it begins. Because I know I`ll see him again. For the first time in a long time I feel good.”

“I quit. I`m a quitter.”

“I used to think the worst feeling in the world was losing someone you love, but I was wrong. The worst feeling in the world is the moment that you realize you’ve lost yourself.”

I want him to love me as much as I love him.”

I’m playing with fire; with something I don’t understand.”

Where is everyone?

“That’s what love should be. You should love the person that makes you glad to be alive.”

“When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.”

“We met and we talked, and it was epic. But then the sun came up and reality set in.”

“You’re going to think that the pain will never end, but it will. But first you have to let it all in. You can’t fight it, it’s bigger than you.”

I …. don’t think it’s vain to say that I am beautiful. If I did not know I was, I would have to have never looked in a mirror or heard a compliment.”

“It’s not something I should be proud of—it’s just something that was passed down from Mom and Dad.”

“When someone asks ‘How are you?’, they really don’t want an answer.”

“I would write, Dear Diary, Today I convinced myself it’s ok to give up. Stick with the status quo, now just isn’t the time. But my reasons aren’t reasons, they’re excuses, and the truth is, I’m scared.”

“There is no science here, this is magic.”

“Trust is earned – I can’t just magically hand it over.” 

“You’re a powerful witch goddess. Seize the day, Brumhilda”

“One day you’re gonna have to stop pretending that everything’s okay”

“We’ll survive this. We always survive.”

“In that moment, I loved him. I didn’t want to, I mean, it terrified me, but for that moment, I loved him.”

“New year. New life.”

“I’m human. I have to do human stuff. Otherwise, I’m going to go crazy.” 

“Smiling doesn’t always mean you’re happy. Sometimes it simple means that you are a strong person.”

“We’re gonna slumber it.”

“I’m not gonna be one of those pathetic girls whose world stops just because of some guy.”

“You know what? Friends don’t manipulate friends. They help each other.”

“Trust is earned—I can’t just magically hand it over.”

“That’s what love should be. You should love the person that makes you glad to be alive.”

“At that moment, I loved him. I didn’t want to, I mean, it terrified me, but for that moment, I loved him.”

“I want to thank you for giving me everything I ever wanted. A love that consumed me, adventure, passion, there’s nothing more that I could have asked for—except for it to last forever.”

“You put me in a position where I have to defend you again. Where I have to go against every single thing I believe in again. Because I love you!”

“It’s the most real thing I’ve ever felt in my entire life. I love you, “

“I love you. Hold on to that. Never let that go.”

“I want him to love me as much as I love him.”

“You’re going to think that the pain will never end, but it will. But first, you have to let it all in. You can’t fight it, it’s bigger than you.”

“I want so much to make things right but every instinct in my body is telling me to be careful. What you don’t know can hurt you.”

“I used to think the worst feeling in the world was losing someone you love, but I was wrong. The worst feeling in the world is the moment that you realize you’ve lost yourself.”

“I’m playing with fire—with something I don’t understand.”

“When it’s real, you can’t walk away.”

“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.”

“He got under my skin and no matter what I do, I can’t shake him.”

“I tricked you into telling me the truth. That’s not stabbing you in the back. That’s using your own tactics against you.”

“First rule of being a vampire is realizing how awesome you are.”

“Thank you for bumping into me that day in the hallway. I never thought I would ever be happy again and then I met you. You quite literally saved my life.”

“And you just happen to be hanging around a cementary.”

“I can accept the fact that the world is a much more mysterious place than I ever thought possible, but this, this lie, I cannot take. What am I to you? Who am I to you?”

“Peace exists. It lives in everything we hold, dear. That is the promise of peace, that one day, after a long life, we found each other again.”

“I want so much to make things right but every instinct in my body is telling me to be careful. What you don’t know can hurt you.”

“When it’s real, you can’t walk away”

“I burden you with all of my drama, and I want you to do the same.”

“I`m not going to be one of those pathetic girls, whose world stops spinning because of some guy.”

“I think that my paranoia has turned into full-blown hallucinations.”

“If you mean me no harm then you`ll go.”

“So she`s a vampire with issues?”

“Part of me wishes, that I could forget too. Forget meeting you, finding out what you are and everything that has happened since.”

“Around you people get hurt and people die and I just..it`s just too much..I can`t..”

“you have to stay away from me.”

“I couldn`t miss your hundred and whatever birthday.”

“When I saw you I thought you we`re coming to say goodbye.”

“You don`t get to make that decession for me. If you walk away it`s for you, because I know what I want.”

“Time out remember? Five minutes? Well that five minutes is gonna need a beer.”

“i used to be more fun.”

“If he`s trying to kill me, why call first?”

“You are so teaching me how to hand-jive.”

“I fought back tonight. It felt good.”

“I would say drop dead but…”

“You`re not exactly innocent. You`ve made it your life mission to make him miserable.”

“Don`t pretend that you don`t care.”

“Asked? You threatend him.”

“There’s more to me than just gloomy grave yard girl.”

“I won’t love a ghost for the rest of my life.” 

“I Feel Good, Which Is Rare, So I’ve Decided To Go With It. Fly Free, Walk On Sunshine, All That Stuff.”

“Our Actions Are What Set Things In Motion, But We Have To Live With That.”

“Breathe, Eat, Sleep, Wake Up, And Then Do It All Over Again Until One Day It’s Not As Hard Anymore.”

“Getting Out Of Bed Is Dangerous These Days, But We Have To Live Our Lives.”

“The Worst Feeling Is The Moment That You Realize You’ve Lost Yourself.”

“I’ll Survive. Somehow, I Always Do.”

“I’m at a crossroads right now, where I could go live my life the way I think I probably should—be successful and safe, and probably very happy. Or I could risk all of that for this tiny glimmer of a feeling inside that—I just can’t shake.”