Today is day four of the Top 10 Books of 2011, and today we has to make it a character based top 10. Since yesterday we got the best of the swoon-worthy boys I thought today we had to take a look at the awesome heroines. Again, I've done my best to find pics that show how I imagine them!
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| Saoirse Ronan |
1. Tris
♥ Badass but compassionate
♥ She chooses Dauntless
♥ She's Divergent
“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”
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| Lily Collins |
2. Juliette
♥ Broken but still feisty
♥ A survivor
♥ Determined
He licks his bottom lip into a smile. “Don’t confuse stupidity for bravery, love. I know you haven’t eaten anything in days.”
Something in my patience snaps. “I'd really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love.”
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“You sure you’re not crazy?”
“No.” I cock my head. “I’m not sure.”
Kenji grins. Looks me up and down. “Well damn. But you make crazy sound so good.”
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| Emma Roberts |
3. Kaylee
♥ Is a bean sidhe or banshee
♥ Brave and determined
♥ Selfless
"I've seen you fight, Kaylee. I've seen you step into that darkness for someone else, then claw your way out, bruised but still standing. You're that kind of crazy, and I live in that darkness. Together we'd take crazy to a whole new level."
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| Alexandria Daddario |
4. Alex
♥ A 'wild child'
♥ Fierce fighter
♥ Extremely sarcastic and stubborn
"It's just words and words mean nothing. Only action does."
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| Dakota Fanning |
5. Sydney
♥ She's super smart
♥ Funny in her own way
♥ Eager to prove herself
I also suddenly realized that, as unlikely as it seemed, Adrian and I had a lot in common. Both of us were constantly boxed in by others' expectations. It didn't matter that people expected everything of me and nothing of him. We were still the same, both of us constantly trying to break out of the lines that others had defined for us and be our own person. Adrian Ivashkov — flippant, vampire party boy — was more like me than anyone else knew.
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| Lyndsy Fonseca |
6. Katy
♥ Doesn't take crap from aliens
♥ Curses like a sailor
♥ Brave
“Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?”
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| Evan Rachel Woods |
7. June Iparis
♥ A prodigy
♥ Kick-ass
♥ She grows
I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.
8. Karou
♥ Always has weapons on her
♥ Tattooed hansas on her hands
♥ Multilingual
“War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.”
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| Mila Kunis |
9. Saba
♥ Goes through hell to help her brother
♥ Determined, brave, strong
♥ Becomes a warrior
We're on our own. An I feel calm. It seems crazy . . . but I'm calm. Because now I see what I gotta do. An what I ain't gotta do, which is waste time thinkin that anybody's gonna help us. That somebody's gonna come along an rescue us. I cain't count on nobody but me.
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| Jennifer Lawrence |
10. Katniss
♥ A survivor
♥ A rebel
♥ Brave, strong
President Snow says he’s sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?” One of the cameras follows as I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. The Capitol seal on a wing glows clearly through the flames. “Fire is catching!” I am shouting now, determined that he will not miss a word. “And if we burn, you burn with us!”
