Goodreads asked Brynette L. Turner:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Brynette L. Turner My favorite fictional couple is Monica and Patrick from Monica's Healing. Monica is insecure, abrasive, and overly-sensitive. She's very hard to get along with and not easy to like at first, but once you understand her demons and her fears you understand that Patrick's strength and persistence is exactly what she needs. I absolutely love Patrick because he doesn't let Monica's brash outer persona stop him from seeing her inner beauty. He trusts the fact that he fell in love with her and believes that his tenderness and loyalty can bring her out of her shell and into a full life of happiness with him. He's also damaged but never deterred, so we see amazing strength mingled with vulnerability that are the basis of why he understands Monica so well.

For me, this couple represents all of us who face real life obstacles that have beat us down and shaped us in ways that we now have to overcome. This couple is the example of hoping for the light at the end of the tunnel and finding that not only is it bright, but there is someone waiting to walk in the sunshine with you. I'm a hopeless romantic, so having two people that find love underneath messiness and fight to bring it to the surface seemed like the perfect love story.

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