Date a girl who reads

Date a girl who reads. Who spends her money more on best selling books rather than on trending clothes. A girl who has not enough space in her closet because she has too much but not enough books. Date a girl who updates a list of books she wants to read every week, a girl who dreamt about having a library card since she was a kid rather than a credit card. 

Find a girl who reads. She's the one with an unread book in her purse. She's the one you can see her head popping in and out of the the bookshelves of a bookstore, the one who quietly does her victory dance in between the shelves once she found her book she was looking for. Who's the chick stuffing her face inside those books? That's the reader. They can never resist the temptation of smelling those yellow, worn & inked pages. 

She's the girl waiting for her dad to pick her up at the coffee shop she usually goes to. Take a look at her cup and you can see her coffee is still there, cold and untouched. By looking at her lip gloss stained on the cup, she probably took one sip and that's when the barista called her name after that she was too focused on her book to think about her thirst. Take a sit and prepare to be glared, girls who read doesn't like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book. 

Buy her her second round of her favourite coffee with your name on the cup. 

Start a conversation about Murukami and what you think about him. Ask her questions about the plot of The Lord of The Rings just to see she even got through the first chapter. Understand that if she says she understood Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code she is just trying to look intelligent. Ask her what she thought Alice would've be if she didn't fell down the rabbit hole, ask her have she ever wanted to be Alice. 

Dating a girl who reads is less complicated. Give her a book for her birthday, to congratulate her, for anniversaries. Show her your love for her in a form of poetry or a quote from her favourite book, show her that words are equivalent to love. Give her Shakespear, Wilde, Sylvia Plath. Understand that she knows the borderline between books and reality but that doesn't stop her from making her life sounds a little bit like the main character in her favourite book. 

Lie to her if you need to. A girl who understand syntax knows behind words there's motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It's not the end of the world. 

Fail her. A girl who reads knows failure leads to climax. She understands that everything must come to an end but you can always come up with a sequel. You can start over and over again and still be the hero. She understands that life is meant to have a villain or two. 

You shouldn't be afraid of what you're not. Girls who reads understands that people are like characters, they develop. 

If you find a girl who reads, keep her. When she's clutching a book she's just finished while weeping, make her her favourite green tea and hold her. You may feel like you've lost her for an hour or two but she'll find her way back to you. She'll talk to you about the characters as if they were real, as if they were close to her because for a moment, they always are. 

You will propose to her during a concert or on someone else's flash mob. Probably on sick days, just over Skype. 

You will smile so hard you'll think it's impossible for your skin not to rip open and bleed yourself out by then. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names that she thought of, kids with even stranger tastes in everything. She'll introduce them to the huge cats who wear hats all the time and that wimpy kid with series of diaries. Watch her whisper Lang Leav's creation in your first born's ears on the first day back from the hospital. 

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve someone who's seen the world and has lived many lives just because of some dusty books she found in her old closet. If you can only giver her monotony, a sound of her own self breathing and cheap proposals then you're better off alone. But if you want a a world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads. 

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.