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245 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1968
With a start, I scrambled up and stared at the little tree. It was strange because I always talked to everything, but I thought it was the little bird inside me that made everything talk back.
‘But can you really talk?
‘Can’t you hear me?’
And it gave a little chuckle. I almost screamed and ran away. But curiosity kept me there.
‘How do you talk?’
‘Trees talk with everything. With their leaves, their branches, their roots. Want to see? Place your ear here on my trunk and you’ll hear my heartbeat.’
I hesitated a moment, but seeing its size, my fear dissipated. I pressed my ear to its trunk and heard a faraway tick… tick…
First I stopped at the church and took a look at the saints. I felt a little scared seeing the still statues, surrounded by candles. The winking candles made the saints wink too. I wasn’t sure if it would be nice to be a saint and have to be really still all the time.
Gran had once said that happiness is a ‘sun shining in your heart’. And that the sun lit up everything with happiness. If it was true, the sun in my heart made everything beautiful.
“Giờ đây tôi đã thực sự biết đau đớn là gì. Đau đớn không phải là bị đánh đến bất tỉnh. Đau đớn không phải là bị một mảnh thủy tinh cứa rách chân phải khâu nhiều mũi ở hiệu thuốc. Đau đớn là thế này đây: toàn bộ trái tim tôi nhức nhối, và tôi phải mang nó xuống mồ.”