Good morning errbody! I'm feeling pretty good today - I actually worked out this morning (an epic accomplishment, for me) and it's Tuesday, which means Top Ten Tuesday! TTT is hosted by the lovely peeps over at The Broke and The Bookish. This week's topic is Favorite Awww Moments.
1. "I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you---then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. "Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well."
- That heartbreaking little scene is between Jamie & Claire, near the end of Dragonfly in Amber. While I said "awwww" when I read it, I was crying at the same time.
2. Any moment between Elphie and Fiyero in Wicked. I'm reading Wicked right now, and I'm SO into it.
3. The letter from Captain Wentworth to Anne in Persuasion by Jane Austen. For an "awww" Austen moment, you'd think that I'd go with Pride & Prejudice, but nope. The best part in P&P is probably when Darcy proposes to Lizzie, but he insulted her while he did it, so not so romantic.
4. When Heathcliff begs Catherine to haunt him in Wuthering Heights. It's SO romantically tragic.
5. Bonnie & Roger's whole relationship in Bet Me. While they're not the main characters, they're so instantly sure that they're meant to be together, and they fall in love immediately and everything's perfect. It's very sweet.
6. Any time between Tatiana and Alexander in The Bronze Horseman. I love them. Another tragic romantic situation... apparently romance + some sadness equals "aww" to me...
7, 8, 9, 10: So I'm going to say that pretty much any scene between Jamie & Claire from the Outlander series can finish off this list. They're my favorite couple in books, and Jamie says just the sweetest things to Claire - and with a Scottish accent to boot :-)
So that's my ten! Kind of. While you're here, sign up for my Summer Mini-Readathon! It's less than a month away, and I'm soooo excited!
