“我已经当了爸爸，也已经当了爷爷，但我已经三十多年没叫过妈妈了，我想着，等哪天我扛不动水泥了，就回村里挨着那堆士躺下，没准那时候，我再叫妈妈，她就能听见了。”
《我的母亲》
“I’ve already become a father, and even a grandfather, but I haven’t called out ‘Mom’ in over thirty years. I keep thinking, maybe one day, when I can no longer carry sacks of cement, I’ll go back to the village and lie down beside that mound of earth. Perhaps then, if I call out ‘Mom’ again, she just might hear me.”
— “My Mother”