Low Maintenance, High Standards
30 DAYS OF SHIPS (day 03) a pairing that needs to happen now? nick & jess (new girl)
“Jess, I like you a lot. I really do, I’m glad you’re around.”
All Time Favorite Fictional Couples (in no particular order)
KATNISS EVERDEEN AND PEETA MELLARK from The Hunger Games book and film series by Suzanne Collins
Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of my chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me. And eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.
So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
— Mockingjay; Chapter 27, pg. 388
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RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY AND HERMIONE JEAN GRANGER-WEALSEY from the Harry Potter book and film series by J.K. Rowling
(Both graphics water marked with the source.)“Hang on a moment!” said Ron sharply. “We’ve forgotten someone!”
“Who?” asked Hermione.
“The house-elves, they’ll all be down in the kitchen, won’t they?”
“You mean we ought to get them fighting?” asked Harry.
“No,” said Ron seriously, “I mean we should tell them to get out. We don’t want anymore Dobbies, do we? We can’t order them to die for us—”
There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione’s arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet.
“Is this the moment?” Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. “Oi! There’s a war going on here!”
Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other.
“I know, mate,” said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, “so it’s now or never, isn’t it?”
“Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?” Harry shouted. “D’you think you could just – just hold it in until we’ve got the diadem?”
“Yeah – right – sorry – “ said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.- US Version, Chapter 31, The Battle of Hogwarts, Page 625
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WILLIAM TURNER & ELIZABETH SWANN-TURNER from the movie franchise Pirates of the Caribbean 
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Elizabeth, I should have told you every day from the moment I met you. I love you.
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JAMIE SULLIVAN & LANDON CARTER from the book and film A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks.
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It is now forty years later, and I can still remember everything from that day. I may be older and wiser, I may have live another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories from that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I’ve never removed my ring. In all these years I’ve never felt the desire to do so.
I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Through Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It’s still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I’m fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking toward the sky, knowing there’s one thing I still haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.
- A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
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ANYA & DIMITRI from the animated movie Anastasia
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It’s a perfect ending.
No. It’s a perfect beginning.
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NILES CRANE & DAPHNE MOON-CRANE from the television show Frasier. 
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Niles: Daphne, I’m glad he told me because I love you…It’s the truth. Lord knows I have tried to deny it, tried to pretend that I’m over you. But not a day has gone by when I haven’t thought of you — your smile, your beautiful eyes, what it would be like to hold your hands and ask you the question I never dared ask…
Also — Niles and Daphne TANGO.
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MARSHALL & LILY (ALDRIN) ERIKSEN (Marshmallow & Lilypad) from the television show How I Met Your Mother.
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“Lily, there are a million reasons why I love you. You make me laugh, and you take care of me when I’m sick. You’re sweet, caring, and you even created an egg dish and named it after me. It’s called “Egg Marshall,” and it’s awesome. But the main reason that I love you is that you’re my best friend, Lily. You’re the best friend I ever had.”
“Marshall, I love you because you’re funny, and you make me feel loved and you make me feel safe and for our anniversary, you gave me a sweatshirt that says “Lily and Marshall: Rocking it since ‘96.” I kinda wish I was wearing it right now cause it smells like you. But the main reason I love you, Marshall Eriksen, is you make me happy. You make me happy all the time.”
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Corey Matthews & Topanga Lawrence from the ’90s television show Boy Meets World.
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Mom, Listen, I haven’t been together with Topanga for twenty-two years, but we have been together for sixteen. ‘Kay, that’s a lot longer than most couples have been together. I mean, when we were born, you told me that we used to take walks in our strollers together in the park. When we were two, we were best friends, I mean, I, I knew everything about this girl. I knew her favorite color. I knew her favorite food. Then we became six, you know, and Eric made fun of me because it wasn’t cool to have a best friend that was a girl or even know a girl, so for the next seven years I threw dirt at her. I like to call those “the lost years.” Then when I was thirteen, Mom, she put me up against my locker and she kissed me. I mean, she gave me my first kiss. She taught me how to dance. She was always talking about these crazy things and I never understood a word she said. All I understood was that she was the girl I sat up every night thinking about, and when I’m with her I feel happy to be alive. Like I can do anything. Even talk to you like this. So that’s, that’s what I feel is love, Mom… When I’m better because she’s here…
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JACKIE BURKHART & STEVEN HYDE from the television show That ’70s Show.
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Jackie: Steven! You shaved your beard off!
Hyde: I thought it might cheer you up.
Jackie: Oh my God. You shaved it for me! You let your razor say the words your mouth couldn’t speak.
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NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM & LUNA LOVEGOOD from the book and film series Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
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I guess since they both ultimately ended up marrying different people, and they never did get together in the books officially, they are considered a non-canon couple. But with all of the issues I may have had with Steve Kloves, I do have to say that he won a few points with me by making Neville/Luna canon within the films. I’ve shipped these two hard since OotP came out.
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LUKE DANES & LORELAI GILMORE from the television show Gilmore Girls
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I just like seeing you happy.
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JOSEPHINE “JO” MARCH & THEODORE “LAURIE” LAURENCE from the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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My first of two non-canon couples. I love that they were best friends, and her rejection of him is always hard, whether I read or watch it.
Laurie: When I imagine myself in that life, I can think of only one thing that would make me happy.
Jo: Oh, no. Teddy…Teddy, don’t. (Laurie kisses Jo.) No, Teddy. We have to talk about this reasonably.
Laurie: I have loved you since the moment I clapped eyes on you. What could be more reasonable than to marry you?
Jo: We’d kill each other!
Laurie: Nonsense!
Jo: Neither of us can keep our temper.
Laurie: I can…unless provoked.
Jo: We’re both stupidly stubborn — especially you — we’d only quarrel!
Laurie: I wouldn’t!
Jo: You can’t even propose without quarreling.
Laurie: Oh, Jo. Dear, Jo…I swear I’ll be a saint. I’ll let you win every argument. I’ll take care of you and your family. I’ll give you every luxury you’ve ever been denied. You won’t have to write unless you want to. Grandfather wants me to learn the business in England. Can’t you just see us bashing around London?!
Jo: London…But, Teddy, I’m not fashionable enough for London. You need someone who’s elegant and refined…
Laurie: I want you.
Jo: Teddy, please don’t ask me. (Laurie pulls away, hearbroken.) Teddy, I’m desperately sorry. I do care for you….with all of my heart; you’re my dearest friend. I just can’t go be a wife.
Laurie: You say you won’t, but you will.
Jo: I won’t. I won’t!
Laurie: One day, you’ll meet some man — a good man — and you will love him tremendously. And you will live and die for him.
Jo: Teddy, please.
Laurie: You will. Jo. I know you. And I’ll be hanged if I stand by and watch.
I also included the dialogue from the movie rather than the novel because in the novel, the scene is very long. And even though it’s their saddest scene, and they have many fantastic scenes throughout the book, I thought the script was really lovely and funny and them from the film. Plus, I think Christian Bale’s Laurie is perfect.
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ELPHABA & FIYERO from the musical Wicked
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Elphaba: I just wish…
Fiyero: What?
Elphaba: I wish I could be beautiful… for you.
Fiyero: Elphaba…
Elphaba: Don’t tell me that I am, you don’t need to lie to me.
Fiyero: It’s not lying! It’s… uh… It’s looking at things another way. Someday, you and Glinda will make up and we’ll all…
Elphaba: Shh! Listen… Do you hear that?
(A shriek is heard in the distance. It sounds like somebody in pain.)
Fiyero: It’s just the wind.
Elphaba: (The siren is heard again.) My sister’s in danger.
Fiyero: What? How do you know?
Elphaba: I don’t know, I just do… (Gasps.)
Fiyero: Elphaba what’s wrong? What is it?
Elphaba: This! Don’t you see it?
Fiyero: What do you mean? What do you see?
Elphaba: It doesn’t make any sense… It’s a house but it’s… It’s flying through the sky? I have to go to Nessa!
Fiyero: I’ll come with you!
Elphaba: No, you mustn’t, it’s too dangerous!
Fiyero: Listen to me, listen! My family has a castle in Kiamo Ko. Now, no one is ever there except for the sentries who watch over it. We’ve never lived there.
Elphaba: Where do you live?
Fiyero: In the other castle… It’s the perfect hiding place; tunnels, secret passageways. You’ll be safe there.
Elphaba: We will see each other again, won’t we?
Fiyero: Elphaba, we are going to be together always. You can see houses flying through the sky, can’t you see that?
There is nothing like seeing Phantom live.
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CHRISTINE DAAE & RAOUL, VICOMTE DE CHAGNY from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (based off of the novel by Gaston Leroux) The Phantom of the Opera
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Say you’ll share with me one love, one lifetime
Say the word, and I will follow you
Share each day with me, each night, each morning
- Say you love me
- You know I do
Love me. That’s all I ask of you
- “All I Ask of You” by Andrew Lloyd Webber
(All I Ask of You performed by Emmy Rossum & Patrick Wilson from the film)
