“A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.”
— Sarah Waters, book Tipping the Velvet
Source: Tipping the Velvet
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