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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.”
― Tembi Locke

“We had to begin at an ending and make a new beginning.”
― Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

“Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“He was kryptonite sprinkled on pizza, my personal weakness”
― Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home