People are born, they grow old, and then they die. the world's just going to come crashing down, and I. I'm scared that if I let myself to be happy for even one moment that. All I'm doing is hiding from the truth and truth is that. But, my reasons aren't reasons, they're excuses. Dear Diary: Today I convinced myself it was okay to give up. I want so much to make things right but every instinct in my body is telling me to be careful. For the first time in a long time, I feel good. For once, I don't regret the day before it begins. Dear Diary: This morning was different.All you can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes, you invite it in. You can't escape them, as much as you want to. I had a plan, I wanted to change who I was, create a life with someone new. I thought that I could smile and nod my way through it, pretend like it would all be okay.
When someone asks "How are you?" they really don't want an answer. I must have said " I'm fine, thanks " at least 37 times, and I didn't mean it once.
Also included in the journal was a strip of photo-booth photographs of Damon and Elena.
Alaric pulled the diary out of a box full of Elena's Damon-related belongings and gave it back to her so she could read the entry she wrote to herself prior to having her memories of Damon compelled away by Alaric. In Black Hole Sun, yet another new diary of Elena's was seen, this one made of light blue leather. In Resident Evil, in Stefan and Elena's visions of each other (caused by of Markos' spell), Elena's original diary was shown to be dark red leather instead of light green. She explained her behavior to Bonnie by saying that she was cleansing herself by throwing away anything Katherine ever touched. In While You Were Sleeping, Elena, having realized that Katherine had written entries in her diary while she was a Passenger in her body about how much she loved having taken Elena's life, became so upset that she ripped her diary apart and threw it into the fireplace along with several other things in her college dorm room. It was brown and made of suede fabric with pages sewn into it with a clasp. In Monster's Ball, Elena started writing in her new diary. Jeremy, who was becoming suspicious that Elena was lying to him about Vicki and her death, found out he was compelled by Damon after he sneaked into her room to read her journal.Īfter Jeremy's death, Elena, having turned off her humanity as a vampire, burned down the Gilbert house and her diary was destroyed along with everything else in the house in Stand by Me. Later, Stefan brought it to her at her home and told her he had a diary too.Įlena continued documenting facts and stories about her life in the diary, and how dating a vampire had awoken her to a world filled with danger, magic, and mystery. In the Pilot episode, Elena accidentally left her diary, which was bound in light green leather, at the Mystic Falls Cemetery. Elena and Stefan about her Diary in PilotĮlena Gilbert's mother gave her a journal when she was ten years old. Fortunately she has BFFs Chloe and Zoey on her side. At first it's fun to answer all the letters from the kids at school, but when Miss Know-It-All's inbox is suddenly overflowing with pleas for guidance, Nikki feels in need of some help herself. To keep an eye on what Mackenzie's up to, Nikki decides to join the newspaper too, and somehow ends up working as the advice columnist, Miss Know-It-All. When Nikki Maxwell discovers that her arch-nemesis, Mackenzie, has started writing a gossip column for the school newspaper, she's worried that Mackenzie might be about to reveal some secret info about Nikki's crush, Brandon, that she knows he won't want the whole school to find out about.
The fifth book in the bestselling Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renée Russell, author of The Misadventures of Max Crumbly.