Goodreads asked Lily Java:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Lily Java I don't want to seem maudlin but I'm going with my first thought to answer this. Heathcliff and Catherine from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. It was one of the first romances I ever read. Maybe it's those romantic Yorkshire moors but it still sticks with me many decades later as one of the most passionate love stories ever written about two people. Emily passed away not long after writing this masterpiece but I bet she imagined how it would blow away the repressive Victorians who read it first. The fact that it's not a conventional HEA in some ways makes it even more romantic to me. Catherine and Heathcliff are sexy and their love is deep, so deep it survives jealousy, classism, revenge, brutality and really bad timing. Throughout it all they are both so real to me with all the natural strengths and frailties that go along with the human condition. They make me wish love was easy and reminds me, it rarely is. Love them.

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