Don’t date a girl who writes.

She’ll be cataloguing every move you make and storing it away for future articles, story ideas, poems, and monologues. Her eyes might be warm and inviting but they’re just drinking you up and waiting to spit it all out later with pen in hand.

This girl will build worlds with her words. She can construct anything she wants because there’s no limit to her vocabulary, and when she runs out of words your transgressions will be described by her favorite thesaurus.

Don’t fall for the magic of her thoughts, and don’t question the restlessness of her soul. Because the girl who writes will never stop moving, she’ll never stop looking for inspiration. Her passion will feel surreal to you when you first encounter it.

Her words fill up a void that was created a long time ago. She has learned to patch herself up, to heal herself with open letters and shallow poetry. Don’t date her. Because you’ll want to save her from her pain, you’ll want to wrap her up in your arms and reassure her that everything will be okay.

The girl who writes knows it will be okay. She’s been taking care of herself and her words long before you came around. Those who have stood in your place have let her down time and time again, you should know. Read what she writes when they leave because she uses their blood as her ink and her pain as a muse.

Don’t date the girl who writes because she is the girl who remembers. Every time you used words against her to insult her passion or her first loves, she remembers. Her diary is full of memories, her articles are full of experiences, her stories are just carefully crafted parallels of this universe where you messed up.

If you want to sweep through unremembered, without a second thought given to the color of your eyes or the feel of your breath against her neck. Don’t. If you want the world to remain unaware of the way your hands fold around hers when she reaches to you, if you don’t want them to know how alive you make her feel when you smile at her. Don’t.

The difference between her and the other girls you meet is that she will never let you go, completely. The love she once felt for you will remain in her lists and letters. All trace of you will be removed, should you choose to hurt her, except where you live on in her words.

Don’t date a girl who writes.

Unless you’re looking for the story of a lifetime.