“She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.”
— Tom McNeal
“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.”
— Tom McNeal
“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.”
— Tom McNeal
“…the kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio…”
— Tom McNeal
“Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.”
— Tom McNeal