Richelle Mead Quotes

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

The star-crossed lovers

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story' did it very cleverly, in a different way.' But if you look at 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Titanic,' 'Avatar,' 'Grease,' 'Brokeback Mountain'... they're all 'Romeo and Juliet' stories.

I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.

All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

thus with a kiss I die

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.

Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.