Actually, those initials don't really apply to all of these. At the tender age of thirteen I still didn't know what we were supposed to do with boys when we caught them.

I distinctly remember my first ever literary crush. I was thirteen and he was Boromir in “Lord of the Rings”.  (For clarification, I am not talking about the movie. I am not that young.) I have always had a thing for dark, tortured men, but mostly just fictional ones, thankfully. I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me to go for Aragorn instead. Maybe he seemed too balanced. Besides, he already had a lady friend. Boromir, on the other hand, clearly needed a woman. Oh yes, he did. He needed a woman to sort him out and help him deal with all his manly and heroic woes. Granted, thirteen-year-old me was probably not that woman, even if I had lived in Middle Earth, but she sure thought she was! The grief when he died at the end of the first book was considerable.

I think the next one was Heathcliff, although I later realized he was a tad bit too tortured. I recently watched the movie version of “Wuthering Heights” in which he is played by Ralph Fiennes, who of course was insanely hot in that role, even if he did confirm my suspicion that Heathcliff was, in fact, a tool. (Although Cathy was much more of a tool.)

Since my teens, I’ve either not done enough reading or simply become more picky about men. Well, definitely the latter. It wasn’t until the Harry Potter books (which I discovered somewhat later than most) that I finally found literary crush number 3 in the dashing form of Sirius Black. How much did Sirius TOTALLY need a woman? And I do believe he was a good deal more balanced than Boromir was, to begin with.

There have been others. Notably, grown-up Ramses from the Elizabeth Peters novels, though not to quite the same extent as for instance Boromir.

I’m curious to hear about your literary crushes if you have any. Do tell!

Unless your literary crush is Edward Cullen. I don't want to hear about that.