Has she given you any hints that she's open to advances? She might really just be a "really good friend".
Like what others have said, does she give you lingering looks, sometimes touch you and let her hand stay there a little longer than would be necessary, have "private jokes" with you in front of other people (there's a lot of intimacy in this, if she wants to share something with just you, and in public), or are there close to kissing but not situations, all you have to do is keep your eyes open and notice what she's doing.
Or she might even be interested but still not giving you many signals, as she might not be sure it's what you want. Do you give her any signals?
I'd say the best approach is subtle and gradual, try to spend more and more time with her, if she's up for it that's a really good sign, start taking her to more romantic places rather than "friend places", create some opportunity for a kiss to happen. If all else fails, like TheBrit said, ask her on a date...but make sure she realises it's not a friends-hanging-out thing, more of an actual date.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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