Goodreads asked Joshua Cox-Steib:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Joshua Cox-Steib I recently purchased the collective works of the Belgariad and the Malloreon, by David and Leigh Eddings. The series is geared towards a somewhat younger audience and was a favorite read during my teen years. There is a vast cast of primary characters and it is comprised of numerous spousal/paired characters. These range from the youthful and angsty relationship between Garion and Ce'Nedra, to the calm, placid, and infinitely strong love shared by Polgara and Durnik, to the millennia-old love tragedy of Belgarath and Poledra. There are many more as well, but these three couples span a single lineage and serve to highlight the portrayals of relationship within these books.

No single literary couple came to mind and stuck as I looked at this question, but as I pondered it longer the Eddings' work lodged in my brain and I was quickly reliving memorable scenes between the couples of their series. It's no single couple within these stories that drives my mind in this direction, but the larger picture of relationships that the Eddings paint with their cast of couples.

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