“We have a weight to carryand a distance we must go.We have a weight to carry,a destination we can't know.We have a weight to carryand can put it down nowhere.We are the weight we carryfrom there to here to there.”

“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”

“How is it that we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders, but we have to get it off our chest?”

“Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.”

“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. (227)”

“The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.”

“I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?”