15 Quotes by Tom McNeal

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

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

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.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

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.

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

Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

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

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