E!Online spoke with Julie Plec about graduation and she shared the seniors yearbook quotes.

Though most big events on The Vampire Diaries tend to end with blood, tears and a body count, executive producer Julie Plec says she wanted the group’s graduation to be an emotional milestone in the CW series.

“We did really want our characters to be able to graduate and have that moment that I loved so much growing up watching other TV shows where teenagers finally hit that milestone,” Plec previews.

“We get a little bit of both. We get the s–t hitting the fan behind the scenes, but we still get a great glimpse of that nostalgic milestone. These characters, even though some may say they never go to school, I’d say they worked pretty hard to get to this point! It’s a real nice moment, and I always get a little misty-eyed when I see it. It makes me happy.”

And because Plec and the TVD writers room are so awesome, they’ve gifted us with Mystic Falls’ graduating class of 2013′s yearbook—quotes, superlatives and all!

After spending four years with the actors and characters, Plec admits that writing “Graduation” was “a really wonderfully emotional” experience.

“[Coexecutive producer] Caroline Dries and I sat outside my house in the backyard with the breeze blowing and the sun shining and, over the course of two-and-a-half days, split it up and wrote it and shared scenes and acts. It was the easiest time I’ve ever had writing a script because I was just so happy to be writing. Four years, you have to remember—you go to high school for four years, you go to college for four years and then you move on,” she says. “But we just hit that wonderful milestone in the series where we’ve known these characters for four years, and they feel like friends and family, so to be able to write this great finale for them felt really special. In a weird way, it felt almost like series finale, though it wasn’t obviously. We both put that kind of heart and soul into it because we felt like it was that important.”

Stefan Salvatore

Quote: “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”—Bon Jovi

“Map out your future—but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”—Bon Jovi

Superlative: Best Hair

Activity: Varsity football

E!Online spoke with Julie Plec on tomorrow’s season finale of The Vampire Diaries …

As we go on, we remember all the times we had together…

Four vampires, one witch-ghost and one human-as-apple-pie quarterback graduating from high school? Only on The Vampire Diaries! The CW hit’s beloved characters are all set to receive their diplomas and toss their graduation caps up in the air…all while dealing with some serious supernatural craziness going down in the season-four finale on Thursday night. You know, just another typical day in Mystic Falls.

We chatted with executive producer Julie Plec about the season four finale, including Bonnie’s (Kat Graham) “bittersweet sacrifice,” Klaus (Joseph Morgan) and Caroline’s (Candice Accola) future now that he’s off to headline The Originals spin-off and Elena and Katherine’s Dynasty-style fight that was years in the making! Plus, will Elena and Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) sire-bond come back into play when she makes her choice between the brothers?

Elena’s Choice, Take Two: While season three’s finale also featured Elena making a choice between the Salvatore brothers, Plec previews that our heroine isn’t the same human girl who chose Stefan (Paul Wesley) just before dying and coming back as a vamp. “I think that in last year’s finale it was very clear that Elena was struggling with feelings for both brothers and needed to make a decision about what she wanted her life to be and who she wanted to share that life with,” she explains. “This year, she’s had a very traumatic roller coaster of life experience and it’s changed her irrevocably—and at the center of it all was the diehard belief that she loved Damon, that she loved him more than she’d ever loved anyone.

She continues, “Her struggle has been with the realization of the sire bond that she couldn’t even trust those feelings to be true. So it’s more about answering the truth of those feelings and as a result does that mean her distance from Stefan was also not real and not true? She handles that realization pretty well and it’s a great, great, great scene.”

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