Quotes of: Heavy-weights Keyword

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

Comfort & Joy

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.

Dark Light of Mine

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Memories hold you back; their weight crushes your spirit.

Grounded: The Untold Story of Peter Pan & Captain Hook

Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.

Glow

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Glitch

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

Grave Peril

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

Baffled to Fight Better

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.

Curtis Jackson

He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.

The Heist

I want to lose weight by eating nothing but moon pies, which have significantly less gravity than earthier foods such as fruits and vegetables.

I Want

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.

Rob Roy

Making love is not my strength. Also, lifting weights is not my strength.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

Leaders' Watchwords

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

Slammed

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

The Truth About Forever

Foreshadowing: Was my challenging Allah to unleash the full weight of his fury upon us, with dark clouds looming in the distance.

On Two Fronts

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.

Prisoners

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

Paper Towns

Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft