Rebekah, when you got here, Elena Gilbert was one of my best friends. You had no reason to, and probably shouldn't have liked me.
But you listened to what I had to say. You accepted that there were differences between us and I wasn't always going to make decisions you approved of and you grew to love me anyway and I couldn't ask for better than that. You stepped up and made Lawrence home and its people your family and that says so, so much to someone like me who's been accused of adopting people everywhere I go.
We've literally been through hell together and I won't see you beating yourself up for a past that I maintain wasn't entirely your fault.