The Picture of Dorian Gray. Why? Because it's fucking awesome, that's why. Undeniably sexy.

Also:

Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Eyre.
Wide Sargasso Sea.
 

I am finding this really difficult to answer. Depending on what our day would consist of, I'd choose different characters to hand out with.

• If it was going to be a romantic day at the lake or park or whatever, then probably Mr. Darcy.
• If I was going to do all manner of terrible things and drink laudanum and smoke opium, then Dorian Gray.
• If I was going to spend my day in the hospital, then I'd talk personal philosophies with Dr. Wilson.
• If I was going to go human stalking, then Lestat de Lioncourt.
• If I was going to go to a pretty coming out ball, I'd spend the day with Elizabeth Bennett.
• If I was in need of fashion advice sex advice, Emmett Honeycutt would be my man. I'd try to hit on Brian Kinney when we run into him but Brian would reject me because he doesn't like girls XD
• If I was working at Sterling Cooper, I'd hang out with the likes of Peggy Olson. (Or Peter Campbell *wink wink*)
• And I know it sounds pretentious but if I had a chance to have drinks with or work with one of my own original fictional characters, it would be Miss Natalie Griffin :)

This is why I swear fiction is better than reality.

This is going to be so difficult because there are a slew of books that I absolutely adore and a slew that I hate. But I'll try. In no particular order:

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Easiest question ever. I would definitely replace Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice when Mr. Darcy proposes marriage to her while she's staying with the Collins'. This is such a passionate scene and so romantic. If it were a movie version I wouldn't object to either Matthew McFayden or Colin Firth as Darcy :)

"And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! Thank you for explaining it so fully. My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! But perhaps," added he, stopping in his walk, and turning towards her, "these offenses might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design..."

It would also be awesome to recreate the scene in The Picture of Dorian Gray when Lord Henry reveals to Dorian his potential, right before Dorian sells his soul. In this scene I'd be Lord Henry, because there's something sinisterly attractive in corruption, haha.

"Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals; the terror of God, which is the secret of religion- these are the two things that govern us... But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and you should grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with your rose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame---"