Sharing this beautiful piece to the brilliant and pretty geeks. :)
"A Take Off from 'Date A Girl Who Reads' by Rose Urquico
by Faye Sta.Maria-Abalos (For the circulated version, click here)
Date a girl who reads...
She might keep you waiting all the time because a girl who reads knows the value of reflecting after being absorbed in a book. She needs that few minutes or probably an hour so as an aftermath.
Date a girl who reads...
If you hurt her and she will break, but will never admit it to you. She may forgive you in time and ask you to give her back the fragments of herself. Like a puzzle, she has to put back the pieces of herself to achieve renewal.
She will always remember why she loves you like the pages of her book that were earmarked, highlighted and annotated—marked for eternity.
If you leave her, she will never ask you to comeback. But like the letters of Bantock, she will always silently say “bring yourself back home to me and I will immerse you in every ounce of tenderness I possess.”
She knows the power of words—how it can kill, love, ignite, arouse—so use these words wisely...because a girl who reads listens and understands language that are not being said.
Date a girl who reads...
Because she knows that like Allende, loving is beyond banal existence. Engage her in a conversation and she will bring you into her thoughts...only to realize you have been talking for 6 hours straight. Yes, she can make you laugh, cry, smile and amuse you in different ways.
She is comforting. She knows what silence means and she does not need all the expository narrative of your day—because she knows...just so.
Love a girl who reads...
She will give you unimaginable presents—thoughts that play and linger in your head.
How will you say I love you to a girl who reads?
Ask her if it is ok to put down her book for a few seconds...she will –for you...she will. Look deeply into her eyes and she will know. Simply because she can read.
How will you say I love you to girl who reads?
by Faye Sta.Maria - Abalos
Ask her if it is ok to put down her book for a few seconds...she will –for you...she will. Look deeply into her eyes and she will know. Simply because she can read.
Love a girl who reads...
She will give you unimaginable presents—thoughts that play and linger in your head. She will love you wholeheartedly and openly show how much she loves you everyday.
Love a girl who reads...
You will be her everyday. Her knight in shining armor in her romance novels--Tita’s Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate, her Francisco in Allende’s Of Love and Shadows. You will be her poetry, stanzaic but fluid.
Love a girl who reads...
Because she knows how to love—love well. Her passion for you is in each words that engage her. You will be in her book—for every page she reads as she smiles and sighs... it is you.
Hurt her and she will break, but will never admit it to you. She may forgive you in time and ask you to give her back the fragments of herself. Like a puzzle, she has to put back the pieces of herself to achieve renewal.
She will always remember why she loves you like the pages of her book that were earmarked, highlighted and annotated—marked for eternity.
If you leave her, she will never ask you to comeback. But like the letters of Bantock, she will always silently say “bring yourself back home to me and I will immerse you in every ounce of tenderness I possess.”
You will be in her musings as each page is flipped. And in between tears, she will talk to herself that there is a difference between fantasy and reality. She knows that the pages will be witnesses to her tears and pain and she will always unconsciously wipe those wet pages.
It may take her a while to be ok because she knows that books are not written overnight. She will be fine one day and start hitting the book stores in the corner because she knows that she will have next editions soon and make a new list of books to savor.
Love and hurt a girl who reads...
She will always be in each word you will accidentally read, in each page you flip in each word you will utter. She will be in each conversation you will formulate. She becomes the word because she is imprinted and published in your mind. Love and hurt a girl who reads is difficult to forget—because a girl who reads will always be the first edition...something you will always be searching for.
Important Credits:
Jennifer Lapis for sending the link
Faye Sta.Maria-Abalos for the take off posted in facebook
Rose Urquico for the original piece
