There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.

  • -- Ann Hood 安·胡德

当孩子死后,父母不得不做出许多残酷的决定。殡仪馆馆长要了一张铺在棺材上的床单,我送来了舒适的法兰绒床单,淡蓝的,上面画着快乐的雪人,那是刚和冬天的床单放在一起的。

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If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

如果我们对少数民族如此残忍,他们为什么还来这里?为什么他们不偷偷越过墨西哥边境去找塔利班?

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

很多时候,一张白纸比人们要说的话更真实,人们常常后悔毁了它。

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.

你不能把绳子系在冰原上。你不能在冰原周围建一堵墙。

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

每一种社会不公不仅是残酷的,而且是经济上的浪费。