View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.