Scent Quotes - Page 16

• For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

  Patrick Süskind

  Brother, Hate, Heart

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• He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he stepped in dangerously close. “Welcome home. I’m glad you made it. There is coffee in the kitchen for you.” My mouth gaped open. He inhaled my scent, bent close, about to kiss me… I just stood there like an idiot. Curran smirked and whispered in my ear instead. “Psych.” And just like that, he was out the door and gone. Oh boy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Coffee, Book, Home

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.245, Penguin

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• He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

  Annie Proulx

  Sweet, Memories, Real

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• He froze, and for one moment, we stood locked in time. I could feel the silk of his shirt against my skin and the warmth of his body. The lingering scent of the overpriced cologne he wore floated around me. No smoke for a change. I’d always told him the cologne couldn’t be worth what he spent, but suddenly, I reconsidered. It was amazing.

  Richelle Mead

  Skins, Body, Moments

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.165, Penguin

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• Her tiny hand gripped mine with a surprising warmth, and in a shocking wash of emotion, I felt everything I knew shift. The scent of cinnamon and baby powder hit me, and as my eyes widened, my heart melted, making room for her.

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Heart, Eye

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• I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.

  James Patterson

  Flames, Smell, Hot

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• If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Way, Brass, Tension

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• I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Taste, Wanted

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Eye, Promise

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.459, Penguin

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• A tall blonde entered the room, wearing a yellow sash that marked her as advocate. Two men followed her, carrying papers. She was lean and long-legged, with a graceful neck and nice ankles, and William took a minute to watch her come down the aisle. She looked high-strung and difficult. Still, good legs. Mmm, smelled of mimosa, too. Expensive scent. Cerise smelled better, when clean.

  Ilona Andrews

  Nice, Men, Two

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• As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Eye, Blue, Heathers

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.66, GENERAL PRESS

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• I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!" "Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!" "Bah, your brain isn't on board!

  Rick Riordan

  Blood, Brain, Boards

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• Iggy: "I'll grab a zebra; Gaz, you fill all the bubbles with your trademark scent. so people are choking and gagging; and let's throw beef jerky in their eyes! Now, that's a plan!

  James Patterson

  Zebras, Eye, Beef Jerky

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• The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Memories, Flower

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• The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.

  Monica Baldwin

  Fall, Healing, Autumn

  Monica Baldwin (1950). “I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-eight Years in a Convent”

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• My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
  Toward heaven still,
  And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
  Beside it, and there may be two or three
  Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
  But I am done with apple-picking now.
  Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
  The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

  Robert Frost

  Fall, Sleep, Winter

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.94, Coyote Canyon Press

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• I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

  Al Pacino

  Gun, Facts

  "Pacino's way" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2004.

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• The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

  Frederic William Maitland

  Gratitude, Memories, Knowledge

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• In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

  Stephen King

  Wind, People, Noses

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.262, Anchor

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• Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

  Erica Jong

  Husband, Talking, Hygiene

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• To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.

  Faith Hill

  Choices, Together, Would Be

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• I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

  Joanne Harris

  Dream, Sound, Stories

  "This much I know: Joanne Harris". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as "smell good" and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.

  Beth Ditto

  Keys, Essential Oils, Smell

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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• I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Unique, Different, Come Up

  "Jennifer Aniston on Scents, Babies and Tabloids". Interview with Julie Naughton, wwd.com. February 3, 2011.

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• For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Coffee, Eye

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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