13 Couples From Books Who Will Give You Intense Relationship Goals

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.” – Bob Marley

And where better to find such love stories that can turn your world upside down but in books? Take these 14 couples from the world of literature, who shared a love in all its dullness and glory, and immortalized it. They may not have always ended up together, but such was the power of it that it created a forever within the numbered days. Their love left such a mark that when it comes to relationship goals or taking advice on love, we’d always count on their tales…

1. Hazel and Gus

These star-crossed young lovers from John Green’s The Fault in our Stars fell in love the way you fall asleep – slowly, then all at once. And though Augustus died too soon, they did get to have a forever within their numbered days; teaching us that to love truly, you don’t always need to have a 100 years long timeline.

 

2. Eleanor and Park

What are the chances that fire and ice meet, fall for each other, and create something so steamy that it fogs the entire world? Because if Eleanor was fire, then Park was the steel that ice is sometimes. And the love of these two absolute ‘imperfections’ from Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park is something that is perhaps the perfect thing in the world!

 

3. Elizabeth and Darcy

Both pride and prejudice can come as obstacles in the way of love, but if your love is true – you can overcome it. At least that’s what Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy from Austen’s famous novel Pride and Prejudice taught us; along with the fact that when your hearts compliment each other, money is, but just a word to brush away.

 

4. David and Agnes

Among all the tumults in David’s life, if there was one constant anchor always making sure that he was safe and sound, then it was Agnes. And though David took a long time to realize that it is indeed Agnes who was his soulmate, they did get united after all. This love story from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield restores our faith in the fact that when you really love someone, the whole universe conspires to make you two meet.

 

5. Harry and Ginny

Though, for most people, Ron and Hermione is the perfect couple, we often forget the impact Ginny had in Harry’s life. Ginny was not only the personification of maturity, she knew to put other things before herself, or her love. It was Ginny (the book version, please) who gave Harry the much-needed courage to embark on the journey to defeat the Dark Lord.

 

6. Hema and Kaushik

These two lovers from Jhumpa Lahiri’s novella of the same name are in the truest sense, star-crossed. They continue feeling for each other since childhood, only to be united for a very short while, before parting only to never see each other again. And yet, you’d be left with the feeling that love, even if shared for 2 days, can mean the world.

 

7. Cath and Levi

Levi was equally Cath’s silver lining and her reality check. This guy with his 10 thousand smiles not only made Cath fall for him, but even we did – fall for him a little I mean. And it is the story of Cath and Levi from Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, that teaches us how important it is for the right kind of love to come in your life, to make it right!

 

8. Tris and Four

If Tris is the fire that burns then Four is that hand cupped around the flame, protecting it against the harsh wind. The two main protagonists of Veronica Roth’s Divergent series taught us the meaning of love in its various forms. But above all, it taught us that true love can indeed live on even in death.

 

9. Noah and Allie

Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook has given us the greatest lovers of all time, and we couldn’t be more grateful for that. Noah and Allie taught us that to love is to have faith in that love, even when you think you have given up on it.

 

10. Liesel and Rudy

Who said young love is stupid, or just heady? Because “the only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” And it maybe worse, but it’s the best kind of worse – the kind that can bring spring back to the Selfish Giant’s garden. At least that is what Rudy and Liesel from The Book Thief taught us!

 

11. Sati and Shiva

The love story of the protagonist of Amish’s Shiva trilogy and his lady love showed us that love can win against all odds, if only you have faith in each other.

 

12. Robinhood and Maid Marion

Maid Marion left her life in a mansion for Robin and became his armor against all odds. Even in death she loved to the moon and back, and it was her, that kept all the broken pieces that made Robinhood who he was, together.

 

13. Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell’s cult classic Gone with the Wind gave us Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler – the couple so unfit for each other that they should be together. And through their love that stood against everything that came in the way, they taught us not to give up on love, because you only find it once, and because “tomorrow is another day.”

For you, reader, so that your love, no matter which form it is in, becomes just as beautiful as theirs.

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