“It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked."What weight?" Rand replied."That lost hand you've been carrying."Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.”
“She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard," she said. "And the weight of what they carry tortures their feet.”
“Being there was like having a good cry, the clearing of the air after weight has been held.”
“Valeria," the mayor's wife asked. "Are you all right this morning? My husband has been asking about you.""Yes, desire. Quite. Don't you look lovely today.”
“I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.”
“Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he’d so faithfully carried.”