It’s Valentine’s Day Week and it’s been awhile since I participated in a Top Ten Tuesday hosted weekly by The Broke and the Bookish, so I thought this week would be a perfect one to jump right back in. This week’s Top 10 list is…
Top Ten Favorite Fictional Romances (see? how fitting)
But before I dive into my list, I wanted to point out an awesome contest going on at my friend Mandy’s new website, The First Reader. Mandy is launching her new website and blog. You might remember her from Headdesk for Writers. All you have to do is go comment on this post and then you can choose to tweet, follow, etc. for more points. Here’s what’s up for grabs:
Prize Pack #1
- Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
- The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
- The Line by Teri Hall (ARC)
Prize Pack #2 (isn’t it so pretty?)
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis (original hardcover)
- Wings by Aprilynne Pike (paperback)
Prize Pack #3
- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
- Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
- Perception by Kim Harrington (ARC)
I’ll just go ahead and assume that you’re already thanking me for giving you a heads up. And now…onto the list!!
10. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark from Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
“Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
9. Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.”
8. Miles Halter and Alaska Young from Looking for Alaska by John Green
“Sometimes I don’t get you,’ I said.
She didn’t even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, ‘You never get me. That’s the whole point.”
7. Amy and Nick from Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (okay, so they aren’t the loveliest of couples, but…)
“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don’t have genuine souls.”
6. Travis and Mary from Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
“Suddenly, all I can think about are all the things I don’t know about him. All the things I never had time to learn. I don’t know if his feet are ticklish or how long his toes are. I don’t know what nightmares he had as a child. I don’t know which stars are his favorites, what shapes he sees in the clouds. I don’t know what he is truly afraid of or what memories he holds closest.”
5. Sam and Kent from Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
4. Tris and Four from Divergent by Veronica Roth
“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you’re small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you’re wrong.”
3. Anna and Etienne from Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
2. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
“There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione’s arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet.”
1. Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
Chandler Baker 