Top 10 of 2012 ~ Best Book Boyfriends of 2012

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~Best Book Boyfriends of 2012~

Adrian Ivashkov



"Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try."

"I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony" 

"No one can look at you in this dress, in all that fire and gold, and start talking about anachronisms. If I were him, I would have said, 'You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth.'"

 "Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember-no matter how ordinary things seem between us-I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will."

Jem Carstairs



(I'm cheating with this once since the book came out in Dec 2011 but if I can't include him I'll literally cry!)

"Your place is with me,” Jem said. “It always will be.”

"When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that."

 "Wo ai ni, Tessa." he whispered. "Wo bu xiang shi qu ni."
I love you. And I don't want to lose you."

Tod Hudson

"So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets."

 "Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise."

 "You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us ill be standing for very long."

Isaac

"I’m in your mind, getting to know every part of you. You can put up walls, but sooner or later I’ll break down every last one. There won’t be any secret you can keep or any part of you I don’t know…Intimately.”

 "No matter who you are or where you come from, we're the same. We were meant to be together."

 "Don't you understand anything?" He shook her. "It never mattered what you are, or what I should have done. Not since the very beginning. I fought my own uncle to keep you safe. I've fought my own people. I have no intention of letting the demon have you now. You're mine."

Lucas Maxfield

“Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline...It's easy. Incredibly easy.”

"So I don't want you to feel pressured. Or overpowered. But I do, absolutely, want to kiss you right now. Badly.” 

"I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck. And your lips. I need to spend more time staring at them and less time tasting them."

Kale

"As long as I know this" - he lifted our joined hands - "is mine to hold, I'll wait for you forever."

 "If I had the ability to touch anyone else in this world, I still don't believe I'd want it to be anyone but you."

 "What was that?"
I blushed. "A kiss."
"That's what a kiss feels like?"
"Well, technically. There are a lot of different types of-"
"Show me."
"Show you what?"
"Show me some of the other kinds."
"You're asking me to kiss you?"
He nodded, hands curled over the edge of the bed. "Is that not right?"

"I stayed with Dex last night. We took off our shirts."

"You hurt her. she told me. Why do you care if she lets me kiss her? She holds my hand now, not yours!"

Bram Griswold

"I love you, Nora. I will think you beautiful when I have no eyes left to see. I will remember your voice when my ears go. You can't hold onto me forever, but I will hold onto you until I am nothing but dirt."

"Nora. I loved her. I'd yet to say the words, because I didn't want to freak her out-it'd only been a few months, after all. But I knew I loved her. Needed her. I didn't need food, or water, or even oxygen, but I needed her. I'd never met a more spirited, accepting, drop-dead-again beautiful girl in my life."

 "Nora was the only thing that made sense. She was the only unchanging thing in my universe. She was my lodestar. No matter which way my emotions and circumstances and the impulses of my dead, dying, trying body pulled me, no matter how many mistakes I made, she was always true north. Sometimes I’d side with the dead, sometimes with the living, but always with her."

Falco

"I know you want this as much as I do," he said. "You aren't going to report me. And even if you did, I'm inclined to think a night with you might well be worth imprisonment."

 "Come on," Falco said. "I'll see you safely home to your fancy sheets. I'd say you need your beauty sleep, but it looks like you've been getting plenty."

 "You should be more careful, you know."
"Careful?" she managed to croak. "You're the one who knocked me over."
"I couldn't resist," he said, and he actually had the nerve to wink at her. "It's not often I get the chance to put my hands on such a beautiful woman."

Tucker Avery



Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You."

"I'm looking at you. Why are you always trying to hide how pretty you are?"

"I didn't ever think you were a freak. I think...I thought you were magic or something. I thought that you were too perfect to be real."





Jase Garrett

“Jase?” 

“Mmm-hmm?” 

He lifts up on one elbow, his face barely visible in the twilight. 

“You have to kiss me,” I find myself saying. 

“Yeah.” He leans closer. “I do.” 

His lips, warm and soft, touch my forehead, then slide down my cheek, moving sideways to my mouth. His hand comes up to press the nape of my neck beneath my wet hair, just as mine slips to his back. His skin’s warm beneath the cool sheen of water, his muscles tight as he lies there, still balanced on one elbow. 

I curl in closer.

 After about five minutes I say, "Put this back on now." I thrust his shirt at him.
"Okay. Why?"
"Just do it."
"Unbelievably distracted by my body, Samantha?"
"Yes."
He laughs. "Good. We're on the same page, then." There's a pause. Then he says, "I said that wrong. Like it was all about how you look, and that's not it. It's just that you're so different than I thought you were."
"Than you thought I was, when?"
"When I saw you. Sitting on your roof. For years."
"You saw me. For years?" I feel myself flush again. "You didn't tell me that."
"For years. Course I didn't tell you. I knew you watched us. Couldn't figure out why you didn't just come over. I thought... maybe you were shy... or a snob... I didn't know. I didn't know you then, Sam. Couldn't help watching you back, though."

Last year I cheated big time on this one and listed 20 + 10 adult ones! LOL I don't know if I've raised my standards or what but it was easy to pick just 10 this year. Also because it had to be a book from 2012 so here are some honorable mentions including everything I read in 2012.

Logan Keeley from Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
Elder from A Million Suns by Beth Revis
Shay from Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer
Travis from Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Astley from Need series by Carrie Jones
Warner from Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
Alex from Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
Zeke from The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
Gabriel from Fever by Lauren DeStefano
Bishop & Kraven from Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen
Sam Henry from Catching Jordan by Miranda Keanelly
Corndog form Stealing Parker by Miranda Keanelly
Alex from Wake by Amanda Hocking
Wesley Rush from The Duff by Kody Keplinger
Nathan from A Midsummer's Nightmare by Kody Keplinger
Noah from Pushing The Limits by Katie McGarry
Neil from Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans
Julian from White Lines by Jennifer Banash
Zach from Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter
Sam from Speechless by Hannah Harrington
Josh from The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
Daemon from Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Michael from Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London
Patch & Scott from Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick
Toby & Sean from The Boys of Summer by C.J. Duggan
Sean from The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna
Sam from Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
Dale from Betwixt by Melissa Pearl
Gabe from Luminosity by Stephanie Thomas
Will from Body & Soul by Stacey Kade
Kope & Kai from Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
Matt from Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park
Bennett from Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone
Levi from Flight by Alyssa Rose Ivy
Nate from The Faerie Guardian series by Rachel Morgan
Jay from The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting



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