I got this from Goodreads...
"You should date a girl who reads. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who 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 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 she has found the book she wants. You see that weirds chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That's the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She's the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, 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 he 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, for anniversaries. Give her the gifts of words, in poetry and 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.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but 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 Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 a.m. clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make he 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 a 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 you heart hasn't burst and bled out all over your chest yet. Your will write the story of you lives, have kids with strange names and even strange tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, may be 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 you boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colourful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotomy, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you're better of alone. If you want the world and the world beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes." ~ Rosemarie Urquico
p/s:
pernah seorang yang begitu rapat dengan aku berkata
buang masa membaca ni dan membazir wang jer membeli buku
terutamanya novel, katanya orang itu pastinya kuat berangan...
hati aku terdetik, kalau pun engkau tak suka membaca
tidak bolehkah engkau hormati hobi seseorang?
setiap orang punya hobi yang berbeza bukan?
so jangan kerana kita tidak sukakan sesuatu
maka dengan lantang saja menyuarakan pendapat anda
tanpa mengira hati dan perasaan orang lain
