Goodreads asked Michael J. Gajda:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Michael J. Gajda To be honest, I don't think I have one. No one comes to the front of the line in my mind anyway. I seem to be able to move from one story's characters to the next. They all seem to blend together after a while. Each story has its own life, its own flow, and its own transformation over time: before, during, and after I read it. Each story's characters (or any book's meaning for that matter) seems to change over time as my own life story changes over time. Some stories that I've read for a second time around, years later, are completely transformed in how I absorb them and their characters. Sometimes I ask myself, "How come this story and its people seemed so meaningful to me the first time around and now it doesn't ring a very convincing bell of interest at all? How come I thought these people in this story were so interesting back then and now they seem kind of boring?". All stories and characters and any book's meaning changes over time. If they didn't, then I'd be worried that maybe my own life story got stuck somewhere in some either/or universe along the line where everything and everyone remains the same forever and where battles are fought to defend these things to the death no matter what. Kind of sounds like the politics and wars that continue to languish in the so-called real world with their ongoing back and forth battles of opposing stucknesses (if that's a word).
Aren't you glad you asked the question?

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