“...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once… — 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