I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.
Dark Roots: StoriesFear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
Everything Lost: The Latin American NotebookSometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.
The First Immortal...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...
A Familiar RainIf a person gets rid of any weight, or girth, or fat, it isn't lost--it is fought off, beaten off.
The Fun of Getting ThinWhen they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.
The Haunting of Hill HouseWe lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.
The Buddha in the Attic