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Top 15 Tembi Locke Quotes (2024 Update)

Tembi Locke Quote: “Fennel is a delicious thing that can sprout up among the weeds along the road of life. As Saro had said, “It’s there to make you know that you are alive.”

1. “Fennel is a delicious thing that can sprout up among the weeds along the road of life. As Saro had said, “It’s there to make you know that you are alive.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “But I had learned that identity is prismatic, that belonging requires claiming.”

2. “But I had learned that identity is prismatic, that belonging requires claiming.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “He soothed the places I hadn’t known needed soothing, seemed perfectly willing to embrace the parts of me that were wanton, unsettled, unfinished, and contradictory. Together we had engaged life as two forks eating off one plate. Ready to listen, to love, to look into the darkness and see a thin filament of the moon.”

3. “He soothed the places I hadn’t known needed soothing, seemed perfectly willing to embrace the parts of me that were wanton, unsettled, unfinished, and contradictory. Together we had engaged life as two forks eating off one plate. Ready to listen, to love, to look into the darkness and see a thin filament of the moon.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “We are all the children of God, just look at our hands.” He held up his hand, palm facing my dad. “But notice, each finger is different. One is short, one is long, one is crooked. They each do different things. But we are all part of the same family.”

4. “We are all the children of God, just look at our hands.” He held up his hand, palm facing my dad. “But notice, each finger is different. One is short, one is long, one is crooked. They each do different things. But we are all part of the same family.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “The connection you are creating here is like a flower. It requires soil and sun, things that, thanks to God, are given freely. But it is you, all of us, who has to water the flower to make it grow. Without water, all relations remain small. They can’t open, and eventually they die.”

5. “The connection you are creating here is like a flower. It requires soil and sun, things that, thanks to God, are given freely. But it is you, all of us, who has to water the flower to make it grow. Without water, all relations remain small. They can’t open, and eventually they die.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “Cooking is about surrender.”

6. “Cooking is about surrender.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “He was kryptonite sprinkled on pizza, my personal weakness.”

7. “He was kryptonite sprinkled on pizza, my personal weakness.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “What if my own life was like a flower? Something I had to continually tend to and nurture. Sicily was the water and sun that fortified me to stand stronger in my life after loss. And maybe my leaving a rock at the cemetery, as an act of remembrance, had additional meaning. Maybe it was a symbol of the lasting permanence of Saro’s love. His love, life, illness, and death had taught me so much but it was the undergirding of his love that was my salvation in loss.”

8. “What if my own life was like a flower? Something I had to continually tend to and nurture. Sicily was the water and sun that fortified me to stand stronger in my life after loss. And maybe my leaving a rock at the cemetery, as an act of remembrance, had additional meaning. Maybe it was a symbol of the lasting permanence of Saro’s love. His love, life, illness, and death had taught me so much but it was the undergirding of his love that was my salvation in loss.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “We had to begin at an ending and make a new beginning.”

9. “We had to begin at an ending and make a new beginning.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “Saro’s love, his life and his loss had forged me, softening me to life and strengthening me in the broken places.”

10. “Saro’s love, his life and his loss had forged me, softening me to life and strengthening me in the broken places.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “I was witnessing another example of the way community functioned so tightly here, for better or for worse. Each of the women on this street will be called upon and expected to participate in the illness or death of the others. They held one another up, it was a custom as ancient and alive as the ruins of Sicily’s Harrah temple.”

11. “I was witnessing another example of the way community functioned so tightly here, for better or for worse. Each of the women on this street will be called upon and expected to participate in the illness or death of the others. They held one another up, it was a custom as ancient and alive as the ruins of Sicily’s Harrah temple.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “Yet nothing about dying was easy. Not for him nor for me. It was labor, as much labor as coming into this world.”

12. “Yet nothing about dying was easy. Not for him nor for me. It was labor, as much labor as coming into this world.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “I remember that the afternoon light was another passenger in the car, witnessing two lives in motion.”

13. “I remember that the afternoon light was another passenger in the car, witnessing two lives in motion.”

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Tembi Locke Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Tembi Locke Quote: “The hot air was pregnant with jasmine and eucalyptus.”

15. “The hot air was pregnant with jasmine and eucalyptus.”

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