Regina O'Melveny Quotes & Sayings

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

The impetuous wind can ignite the fire or put it out. — Regina O'Melveny

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly. — Regina O'Melveny

Hope was a plain thing for her, common as bread. — Regina O'Melveny

For it was beautiful upon our tongues and we traced all the lines to the heart. — Regina O'Melveny

It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit. — Regina O'Melveny

One must stand apart in order to truly know another. — Regina O'Melveny

The recitation of grievances was strange balm. — Regina O'Melveny

Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth. — Regina O'Melveny

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 many hours at a window on the Zattere, waiting for my father's return, waiting for my life to appear like one of those great ships that came into the harbor, broad sails filled with the wind of providence ... I'd grown transparent as the glass through which I peered, dangerously invisible even to myself. It was then I knew I must set my life in motion or I would disappear. — Regina O'Melveny

I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists. — Regina O'Melveny

I felt that I was burning underwater. — Regina O'Melveny

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 pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine. — Regina O'Melveny