“She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't each come to season in the other?” — Regina O'Melveny Copy Share Image
“...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of… — Regina O'Melveny Copy Share Image
“I've since come to believe that the world is populated by multitudes of women sitting at windows, inseparable from their surroundings. I myself spent… — Regina O'Melveny Copy Share Image
“I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.” — Regina O'Melveny Copy Share Image
“For it was beautiful upon our tongues and we traced all the lines to the heart.” — Regina O'Melveny Copy Share Image
“Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening.… — Regina O'Melveny Copy Share Image
