books

books

Go out with a girl who reads. Go out with a girl who spends his money on books instead of clothes. She has a space in your closet because it has too many books. Go out with a girl who has a list of books to read, you have a library card since I was twelve.
Find a girl to read. You'll know you do because you always have a book to read in your portfolio. That she is looking lovingly on the shelves in the library, quietly weeping when he finds the book he wanted. See that strange girl sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand bookstore? That is the reader. They can never resist sniffing the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She is the girl who read while waiting in the cafeteria at the end of the street. If you look at his cup, the cream floating on top because they are now as engrossed. Lost in a world created by the author. Sit. Maybe give you a penetrating look, because most of the girls who read do not like being interrupted. Ask if you like the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let him know what you really think of Murakami. See if you passed the first chapter of the Community. Understand that if you said he understood the Joyce's Ulysses, is just saying to sound intelligent. Ask him if he loves Alice, or would like to be Alicia.
It is easy to date a girl who reads. Dale books on their birthday, Christmas and anniversaries. Give the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let him know you understand that words are love. Understands that she knows the difference between books and reality but, by God, she is trying to make your life a little more like your favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to try, somehow.
Mientele. If you understand the syntax, means you need to lie. Behind the words there are other things: motivation, value, hue, dialogue. Not be the end of the world.
Fállale. For a girl who reads, knows that failure always leads to the climax. Because they are girls who understand that all things come to an end. You can always write a sequel. You can start over and over and over again and still be the hero. That life is destined to have one or two guys.
Why be afraid of everything you are not? Girls who understand that people read, as the characters develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep it close. When you find her awake at two in the morning, pressing a book against his chest and sobbing, make him a cup of tea and embrace. You can lose it for a couple of hours, but always return to you. Speak as if the characters in the book were real, because for a while, always.
We propose marriage in a balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or too coincidentally, the next time you are sick. Skype.
Will smile as you wonder why your heart has not exploded and bleeding all over your chest still. Write the story of their lives, have children with strange names and even more unusual tastes. She will introduce your kids to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, perhaps the same day. Walk together in the winter of his age and she will recite Keats quietly while you shake the snow from his boots.
Go out with a girl who reads, because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you more colorful life imaginable. If you can only give monotony and hard hours and proposals halfway, then you're better alone. If you want the world and worlds beyond it, get a girl to read.
Or better yet, go out with a girl you type.
ROSEMARIE URQUICO