Goodreads asked Huston Piner:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Huston Piner An excellent question. I should first say that I can't narrow the field to a single favorite fictional couple. There are just too many wonderful books with enchanting, beautiful, characters who leave me, as a reader, breathless with their gentleness, fragility, and love for each other. But that said, if pressed, I'd highlight a few memorable couples. Russel and Otto in Brent Hartinger's wonderful series (beginning with The Order of the Poison Oak) share a simple, sweet relationship. JR Lenk gives us Hazard and Jesse in Collide, a couple grappling with the emergence of real love from a 'friends with benefits' bonding. Kim Harnes presents a haunting love between Jess and Brody in Still Photo. And the painfully exquisite relationship between Nathan and Roy in Jim Grimsley's Dream Boy moves me every time I read it. And I can't help but love Tyler and Billy in Anthony Paull's Outtakes of A Walking Mistake. Jeff Erno never fails to present honest, romantic couples, as for example, Shawn and Bobby in Trust Me, to name but one. And dare I add Samwise and Frodo? Or Ron and Hermione? I could go on and on.

What all of these couple have in common is the purity of giving of themselves to each other, sometimes consciously, sometimes almost through the forces of nature itself. The unfolding of love comes as the slow realization that being complete, having a full understanding of who we are, can only happen in the reflection of our love for the one who loves us. That mutual self-revelation is at once universally recognizable by any reader who has a heart and truly inspirational.

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