"Some people are taking the “maybe if I’d met you first” comment literally: that once she remembers that she met Damon first, she’s going to change her mind. But I don’t think that’s what the comment was meant to communicate; it wasn’t a statement of how she’d made her choice, whoever came first is the winner. To me, Elena was simply saying that she loves Damon too and if only their timing wasn’t so off, they could be together now. It felt like a parallel to what he said to her in the deathbed moment last season: if only you’d known me then. The importance of that line was not so much its future impact on Elena, but its immediate impact on Damon. When he remembers them meeting, the moment only he knows about, it reminds him of that instant spark they had — that, as Elena says, she hasn’t decided for “always” but for “right now.” It puts some fight back into him, and he rallies against Alaric."
"I can’t speak for everybody else in this world, but when we were talking about what the scene needed to be in the writer’s room, we’ve all had those moments where you end up laying in bed in high school with a guy or a girl that you like, and you don’t know what’s gonna happen, you don’t know what it means, but all you know is that you’re infinitely aware of their proximity to you and every single move that they’re making and every single breath that’s being breathed between the two of you. We wanted that moment to be that experience,” exec producer Julie Plec tells EW. “When we talked to [director] Chris Grismer, we just said, ‘Milk every single beat out of this that you can. It’s so much about what’s not being said. It’s so much about them just lying next to each other, the beauty and intimacy and sexual chemistry of just being near each other is what needs to be telling the story here. So take as long as you want, and shoot it as much as you want, and we’ll put it together from there.’ They definitely gave us everything we needed."
— Julie Plec about the Damon/Elena scene in 319 (x)
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I think I know why 3x19 hit Delena shippers so hard.
A thousand miles onto the sea bed,
Found the place to rest my head.
Never let me go, never let me go.
- Florence And The Machine
#WELL DAMON DEFINITELY FOUND A PLACE TO REST HIS HEAD HUH #RIGHT ON ELENA’S FUCKING TITS
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Can we take a second and appreciate the fact the writers made canon that while Stefan will always be good for Elena, Damon has the potentially of being the best or worst for her.
You know what? You can only expect the best and the worst from true love.
True love can be the most amazing thing that can happen in someone’s life, at the same time it has the power to tear someone apart.
The writers just spelled it out it’s Delena.
"I know you want to stop it. Protect her from it. But you’re young. You don’t see what I see. It’s not just that she makes him a better person. She does, but, he changes her too. Damon challenges her, surprises her. He makes her question her life, beliefs. Stefan is different. His love is pure and he’ll always be good for her. Damon is either the best thing for her or the worst."
— Rose to Jeremy, 3.19 (via thevampirediaries)
