Goodreads asked Eric Shaw Quinn:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Eric Shaw Quinn Wow, that's so hard to say. The first answer that comes to mind is Louis and Lestat from Anne Rice's sumptuous and romantic Vampire Chronicles. But then I think of Alexias and Lysis from Mary Renault's Last of the Wine - I actually swooned while reading that book! - and Achilles and Patroclus from the Iliad? And there's Nick and Nora from The Thin Man and Nancy Drew and Ned Nickerson oh and Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist from Brokeback Mountain and Rhett and Scarlett of GWTW -- to be fair I've only ever seen the movie though the book sits here on my desk waiting for the day I have six months to spare. And I love Jonathan and David (though maybe that's not strictly fiction) and of course Michael and Kevin (or is it Gra or Scott?) and EVEN Paige and Angel from my own books. But when I think about it the thing I like best about Louis and Lestat is that their relationship is still evolving before my eyes in work after delicious work 40 years later!! That's tough to beat, even from the stiff competition that I mentioned.

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