"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
creamer 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.
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.
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 lose her for a couple of hours
but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the
characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always
are.
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. 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."