Emily DePaolo
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"i think i’m in love with this
“it’s love, mr. stoner” … “you are in love. it’s as simple as that” WHY DIDNT I GO INTO THE ARTS/ACADEMIA OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
getting very much letters to a young poet by rilke vibes." — Mar 31, 2026 03:12PM
"i think i’m in love with this
“it’s love, mr. stoner” … “you are in love. it’s as simple as that” WHY DIDNT I GO INTO THE ARTS/ACADEMIA OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
getting very much letters to a young poet by rilke vibes." — Mar 31, 2026 03:12PM
The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it’s your whole soul. At some point in the past, someone reading this book had felt moved to take a pen and
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“At lunchtime I bought a huge orange
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.
And that orange it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park
This is peace and contentment. It's new.
The rest of the day was quite easy.
I did all my jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I'm glad I exist.”
― Serious Concerns
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.
And that orange it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park
This is peace and contentment. It's new.
The rest of the day was quite easy.
I did all my jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I'm glad I exist.”
― Serious Concerns
“Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
― 100 Love Sonnets
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