You + Mesaw this...AMERICAThank you for finding America with me

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.

Roger, he has a chain saw, " I hissed. "I am not going to die in Kentucky!

And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.

Tomorrow will be better.”“But what if it’s not?” I asked.“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.

It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.

It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- Leonard

And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.

You don't have to go away to know where your home is.

You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.

To attain wisdom, experience every thing consistently. To retain wisdom, dispose every thing constantly.

Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

I want to get out there. I want to show myself.

Everything that I do, I try to put myself into it.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

The key to success is failure

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.