“Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.”
“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. ”
“...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.”
“Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down." p 320”
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”
“When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.”