Goodreads asked Alma Alexander:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Alma Alexander I... um. I am guessing that to most people when you ask that question they get visions of sugar plum fairies with the face of Colin Firth dancing in their head and Darcy and Elizabeth lead the cotillion. But I don't think I think that way - and when I actually stopped to consider that question - and please note this isn't my "favorite" ficitonal couple, but they popped into my head so they must be up there in the ones I like - the two people who came to me aren't a book couple, they're a movie couple, and one of 'em is dead. If you haven't seen "Tryly Madly Deeply", you should. :) (But then, that might just be the movie that made me fall in love with Alan Rickman...) In terms of books. In terms of books. The novel I am currently preparing for publication has a couple I rather love - but then, it didn't end happily ever after for them, not really. I don't think Great Loves necessarily DO end up there. I'm not much of a happy ending afficionado, when it comes to that - because thewriter in me keeps asking WHO LOST if these two happily-ever-after people just won EVERYTHING. I kind of care about people, not "couples", so if you're talking characters... Dianora, from Guy Gavriel Kay's TIgana, is one of the best tragic lovers out there. Yes, she's part of a couple but it's a couple who is doomed, who should never have been. There is love, nonetheless - all the more powerful for being "wrong", existing in spite of everything. Love is a great and powerful thing, indeed - and soulmates are wonderful, if you are lucky enough to find them. But I don't really HAVE a favorite fictional couple, not as such. I'll throw a few out there - Leia and Han, Ellen de Montfort and Llewellyn of Wales (read Sharon kay Penman's Welsh trilogy), Lady and the Tramp (you didn's specify human! :D ), and, if I might be allowed a threesome, Arthur, Lancelot, adn Guinevere. That cover it...?

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