Love Narrative Quotes

I really love the story in 'Twilight.'

It's worth pointing out that no one faults a male protagonist for falling in love. What is it about a boy needing a girl that seems to round out his character, while a girl needing a boy can be dismissed as pathetic?

When was the last time you saw a straight black love story without any guns?

Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs.

'Naach' doesn't have any of the traditional, conventional ingredients of a love story.

At one point in the 'Onyx Court' series, I think during 'In Ashes Lie', I suggested that Lune might come to love someone else eventually. Which was me pushing back against the narrative trope that people only get one True Love in their entire lives - an idea I think is kind of pernicious - but in retrospect, I wish I hadn't done it there.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

I like the idea of not having a definition of love and romance. The greatest love stories have been about people who haven't come together. More stories like that need to be explored.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

All love stories are the same.

When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.

Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.

But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.

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

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.