"They weighed me this afternoon, you know.
The nurse weighed me, searched my bag, took my shoelaces and deposited me in a small, white-walled room with one overhead bulb and two simple, tidy beds.
The two Syrian officials inside, thrilled to see an apparent tourist, weighed me down with leaflets about sightseeing in Hama and its ancient water wheels.
My doctor's office, for example, never gave me an accurate reading, perhaps because it always weighed me in my clothes and shoes.
There is so much of it, and it looks so heavy (my own hair weighed me down like a lead blanket) that her gesture seems to defy the gravity that her form conveys. Balthus was, when we met, the director of the French Academy in Rome, which is housed in the sixteenth-century Villa Medici, on the Pincian Hill, above the Spanish Steps.
Because I realized that of all the elements of my education that weighed me down, the victim mentality was the heaviest, the one that had penetrated me the most deeply, the one that held me back and kept me withdrawn and mistrustful and alone for too long.
I've realized that having too many things weighed me down.
It's as if they weighed me down just like resentment and anger keeps an addict sick.
She only asked me to put them down when she weighed me.
My journal was first my getaway plane, overflowing with baggage that weighed me down and terrified me.
I had been to this same doctor one week earlier and they weighed me on the same scale.
