"I still haven't really got over the fact that urbane, sensitive, witty, cultured, ironic, diffident, compassionate, talkative Lord Peter Wimsey is not a real person."
"A hard battle between Legolas and Aragorn... but I'm leaning towards Aragorn. Even more embarrassing, or maybe just plain odd, is that in the film version I found the hobbit Sam strangely attractive."
"Well, you gotta have a no-good bit-of-rough in there, and why not Jem from Jamaica Inn? A womanising horse thief who abandons you on your first date - bring it on! We girls are weird."
"Mr Thornton - a surprise entry courtesy of Richard Armitage in the BBC adaption, scowling sexily under his hat brim and generally giving Darcy a fight for his money."