Damon Salvatore: Drink?
Caroline Forbes: [sitting on couch] I'm twenty-eight weeks pregnant.
Damon Salvatore: Is that a yes or a no?
Caroline Forbes: What is it like inside your head? I'm genuinely curious, because it must be wonderfully liberating to only see what you wanna see.
Damon Salvatore: You know what I'm curious about?
Caroline Forbes: Hmm.
Damon Salvatore: Why the Phoenix Stone made my mother a character in my hellscape when it had so many other options of torture to choose from?
Caroline Forbes: And this is why I begged Bonnie to get Stefan out first.
Damon Salvatore: Then why didn't she?
Caroline Forbes: Because logic prevailed.
Damon Salvatore: What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Caroline Forbes: Nothing.
Damon Salvatore: Blondie... You do not get to make *this* moment the only time you ever decided to shut up. Tell me. What am I missing?
Caroline Forbes: Look,
[gets up laboriously]
Caroline Forbes: I don't know what you've just been through, or... or what it's like in that thing. But the longer that you are trapped, the more your humanity gets stripped away.
Damon Salvatore: Well, here I am, full of emotions. The question is, why isn't my brother?
Caroline Forbes: Because we figured if you were gone too long, you would come back devoid of humanity, hell-bent on killing Bonnie to revive Elena.