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. 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
by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will
never be your fault if she does. She has to give it a shot somehow. 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 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 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
Este de Rosemarie Urquico
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