15 Quotes by Tom McNeal

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    But that is the way of the world, is it not? Every day a child steps away from the parent by the littlest distance, perhaps just the width of a mouse-whisker, but every day it happens and the days go by, one after another after another

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    It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.

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    You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.

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    For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.

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    Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

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    I will always care for you, even if we’re not together and even if we’re far, far away.

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    He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you’ve brought yourself along.

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