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“Julie Plec: It just made me realize: This is the love story right here. Because we knew Nina was leaving by then, so this is the love story; these brothers are the love story.”
― Samantha Highfill, I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries

“Caroline Dries: So much of the show was just about making the mythology make sense, and then the art is making it emotional and compelling.”
― Samantha Highfill, I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries

“Take this of me, Red thinks. Carry it in yourself, a root fed by what would kill it. Carry hunger all your days. Let it guard you, guide you, save you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Julie Plec: In that scene where she's crying in the Salvatore great room as she's coming out of this memory, I finally found my voice for the show, which was this is a show about the fear of loneliness and the fear of being left behind and the fear of getting to the end of your life and not having loved or been loved in the right way, or losing your love and not ever being able to see them again. Moving forward, every episode had to have that emotional core in it as well. So we're building the formula for Vampire Diaries writing in real time over the course of the third season..... And the ratings started going up, which never happens. That's the moment I took a breath. The ratings, which had been pretty steady for two seasons, started ticking up. We all were like, 'Okay, no one's fired, no one's getting canceled.”
― Samantha Highfill, I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries