It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

Reading is my passion.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.