Romeo and Juliet influenced The Twilight Saga

New Moon is Meyer's Romeo and Juliet book and says so in the text. It opens with Friar Laurence's "These violent delights have violent ends", Bella and Edward watch the play together on her birthday, and Edward explains why he envies Romeo. The climax is the play's final act with the ending changed: Edward, believing Bella dead, goes to Volterra to die, and she reaches him in time.