She seemed less my wife and more a woman in her own right, more self-reliant and independent. I felt I was looking at her in the round, so to speak, as one views a statue, from all sides, not merely a bas-relief with the figure partially imprisoned in the stone.

— Thomas Tryon

Thomas Tryon Quotes

It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.

— Thomas Tryon
Romance

You can’t negate the ingrained imagination of a whole culture.

— Thomas Tryon

Nothin’ wrong with sentiment, if it’s what you truly feel. That’s the trouble with folks, they’re afraid to show what’s inside ’em.

— Thomas Tryon

A woman always thinks it takes two to keep a secret, but I’m here to say I think it takes one.

— Thomas Tryon

Time put a patina of affection on yesteryear, and we tended to forget how appalling existence could be in those times, how long and how hard a man had to labor for his food, how difficult childbearing was, how few medicines and conveniences there were; how stern the realities of life.

— Thomas Tryon

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

We help one another by understanding one another. That is the only help there is. And the only hope as well.

— Thomas Tryon

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

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

She seemed less my wife and more a woman in her own right, more self-reliant and independent. I felt I was looking at her in the round, so to speak, as one views a statue, from all sides, not merely a bas-relief with the figure partially imprisoned in the stone.

— Thomas Tryon

He drifted, dreamed; and dreamed some more.

— Thomas Tryon

There’s things in a woman a man may never understand.

— Thomas Tryon

The Bible says Eve was born of Adam’s rib, but he was born of the earth, so there was woman before there ever was man. She is not merely a mate, a life’s companion, a helpmeet; she is the moving force, the power.

— Thomas Tryon
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