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And the days are all dust
and the only thing worse
than losing the trust
of a lover is finding the rust
in their kiss. — Kate Tempest

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. — Terry Tempest Williams

She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child. — Christine Feehan

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. — Pythagoras

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. — Isaac Watts

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control. — Terry Tempest Williams

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams

Millions of characters, each with their own epic narratives singing it's hard to be an angel until you've been a demon. — Kate Tempest

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper. — Terry Tempest Williams

Move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest. — Amelia Barr

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new. — Terry Tempest Williams

I care about my brother.
I care about wilderness.
To care is to lament.
My brother is a wilderness, unknowable. — Terry Tempest Williams

We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1 — Erin Morgenstern

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest. — Luc De Clapiers

Chapter 15 A Tempest in the School Teapot — L.M. Montgomery

Staring down at his napkin, he resembled a scruffy heron. Tempest, — Robert Galbraith

I write as a witness to what I have seen. — Terry Tempest Williams

The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. — Terry Tempest Williams

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see. — Terry Tempest Williams

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image. — Monica Baldwin

Home is where we have a history. — Terry Tempest Williams

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her. — Robert E. Howard

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again. — Brandon Sanderson

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. — Kahlil Gibran

as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. — Oscar Wilde

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another. — Jocelyn Murray

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce

The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest... — Virginia Alison

The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we'll work to keep them. — Kate Tempest

Oh, tempest-tossed believer, it is a happy trouble which drives you to your Father! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Cast out thy Jonah
every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. — Frederic Reynolds

I swear to the gods that if you answer one more of my questions with a question, I am going to go all Tyson and bite your damned ear off ... — Nicole Peeler

Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in the front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady. — Terry Tempest Williams

If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently. — Terry Tempest Williams

For in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. — William Shakespeare

We can rape, but we can also sing. — A.R. Braunmuller

Did I have the courage to forge a path — Terry Tempest Williams

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel. — Terry Tempest Williams

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. — Marco Tempest

Sorrow has a voice. It is the cold scream of silence turned inward. — Terry Tempest Williams

Roland Barthes says, That which cannot be named is a disturbance. — Terry Tempest Williams

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. — Terry Tempest Williams

I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet
within the chambers of a quivering heart. — Terry Tempest Williams

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life. — Andre Maurois

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together — Terry Tempest Williams

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens. — Terry Tempest Williams

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow. — Marco Tempest

This is a landscape that should not be sold. — Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. — Terry Tempest Williams

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. — Terry Tempest Williams

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep. — Terry Tempest Williams

Better to have been a dickhead and seen it,
than be a cunt all your life and not know it. — Kate Tempest

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. — Terry Tempest Williams

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath ... Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward. — Terry Tempest Williams

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse. — Terry Tempest Williams

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest. — George Washington

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home. — Terry Tempest Williams

I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together - the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired. — Terry Tempest Williams

My body is a compass - and it does not lie. — Terry Tempest Williams

I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference. — Terry Tempest Williams

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. — Will Carleton

Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue. — Terry Tempest Williams

There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer. — Terry Tempest Williams

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. — Robert Gottlieb

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar. — Terry Tempest Williams

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. — Petrarch

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. — Terry Tempest Williams

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind. — Terry Tempest Williams

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. — Thomas Browne

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story. — Marco Tempest

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale. — Plutarch

The wind was still making an orchestra out of the tent. But it wasn't a requiem anymore. — Kate Tempest

Once you know that you have a voice," Louis said, "it's no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice. — Terry Tempest Williams

I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts ... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words. — Terry Tempest Williams

The difference between fear and awe is a matter of our eyes adjusting. — Terry Tempest Williams

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry? — Kathy Bryson

At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that. — Terry Tempest Williams

Finding one's voice is a process of finding one's passion. — Terry Tempest Williams

[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man's great striving.]3 — Michel De Montaigne

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. — William Cowper

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out. — Terry Tempest Williams

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. — Terry Tempest Williams

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. — Terry Tempest Williams

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience. — Terry Tempest Williams

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro. — Henry David Thoreau

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival. — Terry Tempest Williams

Life was a tempest, whether you were a milkmaid or a queen. The queens were simply better at projecting control in the middle of that storm. — Brandon Sanderson

I am afraid of silence. Silence creates a pathway to peace through pain, the pain of a distracted and frantic mind before it becomes still. — Terry Tempest Williams

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process. — Terry Tempest Williams

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. — Terry Tempest Williams

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy. — Terry Tempest Williams

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page. — Terry Tempest Williams

She is dark browed, sarcastic and occasionally mean spirited. A knife amongst all this flesh, The kind of woman who starts chaos in strangers all day. — Kate Tempest

Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
Is wild within me! what may quell
That sullen tempest? I must sail
Whither, O whither, who can tell! — Edmund Clarence Stedman

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious. — Terry Tempest Williams

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong. — Terry Tempest Williams

Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it. — Kate Tempest

A good song and good musicians can really move mountains. — Joey Tempest