Terry Tempest Williams Quotes about Risk

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I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.

Terry Tempest Williams

Writing, Like Love, Risk

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

Terry Tempest Williams

Running, Hurt, Risk

Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.15, Macmillan