A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Sheet
Trust is like a sheet of paper.
信任就像一张纸。
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。
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。
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.
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。