Smell Quotes - Page 20

• The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Air, Water, World

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• So I was right, wasn't I? It's still you, even in wolf form.' He grunted. No sudden uncontrollable urges to go kill something?' He rolled his eyes. Hey, you're the one who was worried.' I paused. 'And I don't smell like dinner, right?' I got a real look for that one. Just covering all the bases.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Real, Eye, Uncontrollable Urge

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• Smell is the voice of the soul.

  Shannon Hale

  Voice, Soul

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• Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• Um, Bella? You've got a huge cut on your forehead, and it's gushing blood," he informed me. I clapped my hand over my head. Sure enough, it was wet and sticky. I could smell nothing but the damp moss on my face, and that held off the nausea. Oh, I'm so sorry, Jacob." I pushed hard against the gash, as if I could force the blood back inside my head. Why are you apologizing for bleeding?" he wondered as he wrapped a long arm around my waist and and pulled me to my feet.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sorry, Cutting, Blood

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• I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?

  Nalini Singh

  Flirting, Blood, Trying

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.113, Penguin

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• In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Rivers, People

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.209, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Essence, Long

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.50, Vintage

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Clothes

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• I so love the smell of hatred and revenge. It’s the headiest of concoctions. (Noir) I personally feel that way toward blood. No better smell in the universe than when it’s combined with the aroma of those fearing death. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Revenge, Blood, Hatred

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.72, Macmillan

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• We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it. I personally wouldn’t be caught eating anything because I would end up dead. You might not. But you’d still have to fight them, and since some of them are rather ugly and really, really smelly, it might spoil your appetite. Then again, maybe not. Doesn’t spoil Noir’s. I think it makes him hungrier, especially when he guts them. Sick, but true. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Thinking, Sick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.93, Macmillan

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• And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away

  William Faulkner

  Dog, Echoes, Air

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rain, Law

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.49, Penguin

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• The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sunlight, Pillow

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• Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

  Alexandra Bracken

  Hair, Wizards, Want

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• If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss. Without dreams,I have to be content with my own imagination—which is almost as good. I can picture all those things perfectly.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Dark, Kissing

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• I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Breathing, New Life, Body

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.3, Scholastic Inc.

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• Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of salt air, it affects them deeply and has inspired many of their lovliest songs. There is one that tells of this love, if you want to hear it.

  Christopher Paolini

  Song, Ocean, Passion

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla? Audience: Yeah. EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you.

  Emilie Autumn

  Vanilla, Killing, Mask

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• What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Thinking, Ducks

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• But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue. ...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.

  Jenny Downham

  Fall, Eye, Sound

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.141, Random House

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• My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once.

  Lauren Oliver

  Real, Heart, Autumn

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• Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

  Ray Bradbury

  Country, Eye, Knives

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• Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.

  Rick Riordan

  Scorpions, Mark, Burned

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. "Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again. "Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Dirty, School

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