“Here’s the thing, Judy. Here’s the thing we have to look at and accept. For you, I was a chapter—a good chapter, maybe, or even your favorite chapter, but still, just a chapter—and for me, you were the book.” “No,… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“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… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“I am sure one of those things we are here for is to make certain that those whom we love fall asleep each night… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you've brought yourself along.” — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“If we were honest about it, our lives are all fiascoes. There really isn’t anything of importance except maybe who gets handed your heart… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“Well, it’s all a kind of puzzle, isn’t it? You start out with your own little set of pieces you’re trying to fit together,… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“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… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“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… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“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...… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“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… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“When my nephew passed beyond, Wilhelm comforted himself that a child in his innocence would be delivered speedily to heaven, and there be given… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“He turned toward my voice. "Am I well?" His mocking tone was unmistakable. "Am I well? Why can't you just talk like everyone else?… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
