Wishful thinking

There are rare works of fiction that seep into our lives - books, movies, TV series - that when we reach the epilogue or the finale, we're hit by a kind of longing for the future, for the parts that the curtains closed on or the author left out. And we'd indulge ourselves that on the other side of the world, the characters we're rooting for is walking the earth just as we are. The thought is comforting if not wishful.

If you could take something/someone out of a book, movie, or a series, what/who would it be?

It'd be Lucas Scott's book An Unkindness of Ravens, from One Tree Hill. I've always been a fan of the series. I skipped a few seasons but I watch it whenever I have the chance. The characters felt so real, the things they go through felt human. Lucas wrote that in Ravens - the girls he loved, dealing with his stepbrother Nathan, friendships, vulnerability, adventures, family. Lucas wrote the novel when he was in high school, he didn't take out the real names, "written as they happened and written exactly how he felt at the time". He became a known author after the novel was published. To read the series in print from Lucas' point of view will be a guilty pleasure!

An "excerpt" from the novel:

"Suddenly, it was as if the roar of the crowd, the echo of the final buzzer, the cheers of my teammates were all sounding from a thousand miles away. And what remained in that bizarre, muffled silence was only Peyton, the girl whose art and passion and beauty had changed my life. At that moment, my triumph was not a state championship, but simple clarity. The realization that we had always been meant for each other and every instinct to the contrary had simply been a denial of the following truth. I was now, and would always be, in love with Peyton Sawyer."

Got the idea from an article I read over at Flavorwire: 10 Fake Books in Movies That We Wish We Could Read.