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“All the strength I had gathered as a woman, mother, and lover wilted, instantly and completely. It was like being flung onto jagged rocks at low tide, belly up at high noon on the longest, hottest day of the longest year of your life. There seemed no bottom to my grief, no way out, just through. Through darkness, isolation, and the deprivation of his touch.”
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“Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Not everything deserves your energy.”
― On the Come Up
― On the Come Up
“I am in awe of her fire. Even if I'm the one she sets on fire.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“We had to begin at an ending and make a new beginning.”
― From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
― From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
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