“Do it, because a girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent as a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an accessible necessity instead of an alien wonder.”Tagged: poetic prose, romance, Beautiful Writing, Girls With Standards, Girls With Imagination
“A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the specious and soulless rhetoric of someone who cannot love her, and the inarticulate desperation of someone who loves her too much. A vocabulary, god damnit, that makes my vacuous sophistry a cheap trick.”Tagged: Beautiful Writing, poetic prose, Poetry in Paragraphs, Girls With Standards, Girls Who Know The Real Deal
“Date a girl who doesn't read, because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp edges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things,…”Tagged: Girl Who Reads, Readers, Reading, Dating, Love
“A girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of tenderness come in sporadic but knowable intervals. A girl who reads knows that life is not planar; she knows, and rightly demands, that the ebb comes along with the flow of disappointment.”Tagged: Girl Who Reads, Readers, Reading, Dating, Love