Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
Don't make light of any man's pain.
He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.
He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.
All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.