The Other Quotes

“I wish I could help,” he murmured, with a turn to the Victrola handle. “We help one another by understanding one another: that is the only help there is.”
― Thomas Tryon, The Other

“It is like a deep pool, this imagination, and during the day it gets used up, like water, and when we sleep at night the water we have used during the day gets replaced. And if it is not replaced, if there is none to drink of, we are thirsty. It is from sleep that God gives us our strength and our power and our peace, do you see.”
― Thomas Tryon, The Other

“This atrocious child, whom even now she loved.”
― Thomas Tryon, The Other

“The shocked gloomy aftermath of death pressed a heavy hand upon the house.”
― Thomas Tryon, The Other

“He drifted, dreamed; and dreamed some more.”
― Thomas Tryon, The Other

“A hermaphrodite. There was this poster at the drugstore this morning that said they’re going to have a real live hermaphrodite this year. All the way from Malta.”
― Thomas Tryon, The Other

“(...) she rose and drifted about the room at length, clasping and unclasping her hands, pressing them to her temples as if she would seal in certain broodings which lay hidden there.”
― Thomas Tryon, The Other