“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