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。

相关名言

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。

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

他以别人的痛苦为乐,没有人愿意承认,然而还有什么别的动机能使一个父亲变得残忍呢?

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.

非洲是一个残酷的国家;它带走你的心,把它磨成粉末状的石头——没有人在意。

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。