“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”

“A manly form at her side she saw,
And joy was duty and love was law.
Then she took up her burden of life again,
Saying only, "It might have been."”

“Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?”

“The terrible burden of having nothing to do.”

“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”

“My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin”

“Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again”

“Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.”

“I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.”

“Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.”