Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her
money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because
she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read,
who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does
because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly
looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when
she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an
old book in a second-hand book shop?.That's the reader.They can
never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop
down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamier is
floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the
author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read
do not like to be interrupted.
Ask her if she likes the book. Buy her another cup of
coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami.See if she
got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she
understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to
sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books
for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of
words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her
know that you understand that words are love.Understand that she knows the difference between books and
reality but she’s going to try to make her life a little like her
favorite book.It will never be your fault if
she does.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand
your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance,
dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that
failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that
all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can
begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a
villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who
read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When
you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a
cup of tea and hold her.You may loose her for couple of hours,but she will always comes back to you.She’ll talk as if the characters in the book
are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock
concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart
hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story
of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will
introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day.
You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats
under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it.You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then
you’re better off alone.
If you want the world and the worlds beyond it,date a girl who reads.Or better yet,date a girl who writes.
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This is one nice blog, that i have stumbled upon while
blog hopping.This article is posted by Korean blogger,she in turn reblogged it
from another blog.Anyway I m so impressed with this post that i had to re post
it again.
