Top Ten Love Stories

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers answers. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND post a comment on our post with a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post to share with us and all those who are participating. If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. If you can't come up with ten, don't worry about it---post as many as you can!

My Top Ten:

1. Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth from Persuasion -- Favorite Austen novel. Her best characters.  Awesome story of love lost and found again. Wentworth!

2. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series -- Long (very long) and complicated love story, but amazing nonetheless.

3. Pooh and Christopher Robin -- different type of love story, but still a classic love story

4. Cecilia Tallis and Robbie Turner from Atonement by Ian McEwan -- a doomed love, but so beautiful. And the movie was just gorgeous.

5. Arthur Dent and Trillion from Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Funny, nerdy love.

6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning -- Yes I know, not a literary story, but an awesome literary love story.

7. Wesley and Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride -- Horrible names, but a good story.

8. Eowyn and Faramir from LOTR -- I know, I know Arwen and Aragon is the favorite couple, but I definitely prefer the other love story.  I love these characters so much more.

9. Jo and Laurie from Little Women -- I know they didn't end up together, but they should of ended up together.  Laurie marrying Amy just seemed like a conciliation prize.

10. Mary and Colin from The Secret Garden -- Another love story that ended with tragically with Colin dying (sorry spoiler, but it is a classic, everyone should have read this already) and Mary marrying the other guy (cannot remember his name, that's how memorable he is).

To many I am a pessimist when it comes to love, but deep down I am romantic at heart.  I love a good love story.  Not those crazy Harlequin romances (every once in a while, but nothing that's really going to affect me), but deep stories of love.