What if I was born into a normal life, one without a tortured childhood and without the weight of so many responsibilities and burdens?

He murmured words of comfort. “You need to eat more.” Women liked to be told this, he’d found. In

If you are gonna wear it, you need to own it.

The heart breaks, but carries on. It can shoulder the most impossible burdens.

I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.