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"Date a girl who reads. 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 Twilightseries.
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."Rosemary Urquico (via kblitz)
(Source: blitzkreigkate, via themonicabird)
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because sometimes people do actually feel that way. sometimes your life feels like it’s caving in on you. sometimes people really do feel like they don’t want to exist, like they just want to curl up in a ball, and go into that place between life and death. saying “I don’t want to exist” isn’t saying “I want to die”. it’s saying “I wish that, for the time being, I could go somewhere and not have to feel”. i don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. and if you don’t know how it feels to feel this way, then you have no place to judge anyone who does.
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Haha! Don’t say you’ve never thought this! ;D
I think about that all the time…
every night
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Mind Fuck.
:O
>______________> HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
I never reblog shit like this but I did this like 4 times &….. HOOOLY FCK
interesting
∂_∂.
… what in the actual fuck
mind was blownuhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm it’s like a MAGIC TRICK! lol
What just happened?! Woah.
OHMYGODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Oh shit.
the actual fck asd;fjkl you kidding me
I chose 8 and it guessed 14. It doesn’t like me :(
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AOCDRNDICG TO RSCHEEARCH AT CMABRIGDE UINERVTISY, IT DSENO’T MTAETR WAHT OERDR THE LTTERES IN A WROD ARE, THE OLNY IPROAMTNT TIHNG IS TAHT THE FRSIT AND LSAT LTTEER BE IN THE RGHIT PCLAE. TIHS IS BCUSEAE THE HUAMN MNID DEOS NOT RAED ERVEY LTETER BY ISTLEF, BUT THE WROD AS A WLOHE. IF YOU CAN RAED TIHS, ROELBG IT. OLNY 55% OF PLEPOE CAN
55% isn’t that much..
this took me like 3 seconds to read haha
That was easy.
I’m brazilian and I could read it.
Haha! I can read it. I didn’t realize the letters were mixed around until I read the whole thing. xD
(Source: sickestkidsz, via wulfrics-deactivated20120226)
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I.Love.This. xD
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Fuck society. Fuck normality. Get piercings. Get tattoos. Do drugs. Get high. Drink ‘till you pass out. Have sex. Love with all your heart. Play the music loud. Live your fucking life. Fuck what people expect of you. Do what makes you happy.
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Song of my childhood. <3
