- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Good. You're back. I need your help.
- [holds up earrings]
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Diamond... or dangly?
- Caroline Forbes: Since when does Elena Gilbert accessorize?
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): [almost caught out] Since... she's being conned to go to the Bitter Ball with her best friend Suzy Sunshine.
- Caroline Forbes: Look, you're not fooling anyone. I know that you're faking it.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Faking?
- [nervous laugh]
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): I'm... I'm what?
- Caroline Forbes: Please. It is... so obvious. I appreciate it. I do. But you know I'm on edge because of the whole Tyler/Klaus thing, so you are pretending that breaking up with Damon is no big deal.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): [relieved] Caroline Forbes... How do you always see right through me?
- Caroline Forbes: Oh, Elena, you don't have to pretend with me. And if you don't wanna go tonight, it's... all good. I can be a bitter party of one.
- [chuckles]
- Tyler Lockwood: [in bar, spots Nadia] She's new, isn't she?
- Matt Donovan: Whatever you're thinking, un-think it. She's Katherine's daughter. And the psycho doesn't fall far from the tree.
- Nadia: I can hear you, you know.
- Matt Donovan: You locked me in a safe, and buried me alive.
- Nadia: I'm sorry, but I was trying to save my mother's life. And I failed. So if you don't mind... I'd like to sit here and grieve in peace.
- Tyler Lockwood: [to Nadia] You want a shot? I want a shot. Let's do shots.
- Matt Donovan: What?
- Tyler Lockwood: You heard. She's sorry. Her mom's dead. Let's do shots.
- Matt Donovan: It's your funeral.
- Jeremy Gilbert: Are you deaf? She is not helping you. You're not gonna hurt me, Elena would...
- Damon Salvatore: Elena would what? Hurt me? Dump me? Been there. Done that. Wrote the country song.
- Bonnie Bennett: Kill you. She would kill you.
- Damon Salvatore: [in stoner voice] Cool. And then me and all her doppelgangers could start a baseball team on the Other Side.
- Stefan Salvatore: [at Bitter Ball dance, sees who he thinks is Elena coming down the stairs] Hi.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): [smiling] Hi. You made it.
- Stefan Salvatore: I did. So... Who thinks up these things?
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Lonely single people.
- [chuckles]
- [first lines]
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): [reading] Dear Diary, I love my life. Seriously. Becoming Elena Gilbert is the best thing that ever happened to me.
- [feet slip into wool slippers, and she skips over to the mirror]
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): I finally have everything I ever wanted. I'm young. Healthy. Gorgeous. Everyone loves me. But best of all, I'm a vampire again. So rest in peace, Elena. Thanks for giving me your perfect life. And now that I've corrected the single worst decision you ever made - falling in love with Damon Salvatore - I'm gonna win back the one thing I've always wanted.
- [on her cell-phone, edits picture of Elena and Stefan so that they appear to be a close couple]
- Caroline Forbes: Today is the dawning of a new era. This is stage one of our metamorphosis into the land of the brave, the free and the single.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Bonnie's not single.
- Caroline Forbes: Bonnie's got friends who are single. Which makes her single adjacent. So she can be our wingwoman.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): [reads flyer] "Whitmore's Annual Bitter Ball. A night to celebrate broken hearts, jilted lovers and bitter singles." This is our fresh start?
- Caroline Forbes: No, this is our purge, our cleanse. This is where we rid ourselves from the baggage better known as our tragic and mortifying first semester.
- Caroline Forbes: [leading group] So we all agree. No more moping about life's little failures, and no more dabbling in the dark arts of boyfriends past. This is a fresh start.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Couldn't agree more. I happen to love fresh starts.
- Bonnie Bennett: Uh, I haven't been moping or dabbling.
- Caroline Forbes: No one likes a bragger, Bonnie.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): [to Stefan] I'm fine. You don't have to worry about me. I'm great, actually. I'm the only non-bitter person at this Bitter Ball.
- Caroline Forbes: [at Bitter Ball's shredding machine used for obtaining closure by destroying romantic keepsakes] Did you bring anything to shred?
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): No. I didn't realize people still printed photos.
- [Caroline feeds in a photograph, it is shred]
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Okay. Do you feel cleansed?
- Caroline Forbes: Almost.
- [going to shred the drawing of her and the horse]
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Tyler drew you a horse?
- Caroline Forbes: No. Klaus did.
- [shreds drawing]
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Wow. Clean sweep.
- Caroline Forbes: Yes. I am making a decision. These relationships are over.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Over.
- Caroline Forbes: I'm not going to change my mind because I'm feeling bored or nostalgic. Or lonely.
- [giggles]
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Wait, are you doing that thing where you're talking about yourself, but really you're talking about me?
- Caroline Forbes: I'm just saying that you've been through a lot lately.
- [sighs]
- Caroline Forbes: Your emotions are all over the place. So is Stefan's. I think that making yourself so available could maybe be confusing things.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Do you think that I'm leading him on?
- Caroline Forbes: No, I didn't say that, I just... I... Ugh, just forget it. Forget everything I said.
- Katherine Pierce (in the body of Elena): Okay.
- [goes off]
- Caroline Forbes: [at the Ball, to Stefan:] You came to a dance out of your own free will. Something is up.