X - A few e(X)ceptional Inspirational Writers #AtoZChallenge

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"Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears." 

— Gregory David Roberts


"Lying is done with words, and also with silence." 

— Adrienne Rich

"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me." 


— Roland Barthes

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." 


— Kahlil Gibran

“The joy of writing.

The power of preserving.

Revenge of a mortal hand.” 

― Wisława Szymborska

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” 

― Khaled Hosseini

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” 

― George Orwell

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.” 


― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” 

― Leo Tolstoy

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.” 

― Czesław Miłosz

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” 


― Simone de Beauvoir

"I like you; your eyes are full of language."

— Anne Sexton

"My weapon is literature."
— Chinua Achebe

"You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms..." 

— Anna Akhmatova


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