Burden Quote by Thornton Wilder

“there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether…

— Natalia Sylvester

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.”

— Mary Allsebrook

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

“Her house was the heavy (but not indefinitely heavy) and sturdy (but not everlasting) God that she'd loved and served and been sustained by.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“In a while he reached across the table and took her hand in his. He could not have known that he was trying to…

— Arundhati Roy

“I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Juliet notices the insecurities rising within her – the demons of not being heard, the goblins of not being understood, the imps of not…

— Sara Alexi

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour,…

— Harper Lee

“The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the…

— Henry James

“She didn’t want to try to explain that she was always disoriented, that she never, ever felt truly comfortable, even in her own home.…

— Ameera Al Hakawati