“.Such power, and carried with such careless grace. Howthat must burden him.”
“A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child”
“The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.”
“...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.”
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”
“That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.”