Tom McNeal Quotes

#1. The kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio ...

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#2. Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.

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#3. Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

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#4. Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own.

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#5. And then, before I could shout in alarm, the tear spilled free - and there was nothing for me to do but rush past and, with the smallest draft, ever so slightly alter its flight. The tear landed, safely, on her cheek. Her eyes snapped open in surprise.

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#6. One does not know love until it arrives, and it's arrival will always surprise.

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#7. She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

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#8. You can't let buffoons rule your life.

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#9. 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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#10. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't

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#11. Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world ... but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.

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#12. I'm saying she looks fine on the outside, but inside is somebody who's going to need a man a lot more than he's going to need her.

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

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

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#15. It was as Ginger's grandfather had said. It did not matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you.

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

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