Laini Taylor Quotes

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.

'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

The star-crossed lovers

I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

'One Day' is definitely heartbreaking in a few ways, but one of the main ways is that my character and Jim Sturgess's character are just people from two different worlds who love each other in so many ways and can't quite seem to get it together.

My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.

When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.

It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

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

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

My only love sprung from my only hate.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.