A Wild and Heavenly Place Quotes

“mariners call those islands the San Juans.”
― Robin Oliveira, A Wild and Heavenly Place

“That is the Olympic Peninsula and those mountains are the Olympics.”
― Robin Oliveira, A Wild and Heavenly Place

“the city was cloaked in darkness from three in the afternoon.”
― Robin Oliveira, A Wild and Heavenly Place

“The closes and wynds are like a honeycomb.”
― Robin Oliveira, A Wild and Heavenly Place

“There were good prospects for miners, domestic female servants, and farmers. All others were warned away.”
― Robin Oliveira, A Wild and Heavenly Place

“after the explosion at the coal mine at High Blantyre, and the subsequent deaths of hundreds of miners, and her father’s overwhelming guilt.”
― Robin Oliveira, A Wild and Heavenly Place

“a grand, curved street of attached houses, far from the heavy coal smoke of the industrial east end.”
― Robin Oliveira, A Wild and Heavenly Place