Smell Quotes - Page 21

• I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Children, Nice

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lonely, Horse, Winter

  Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"

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• The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

  Daniel Handler

  Dog, Helpful, Aphorism

  "Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

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• The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Mean, Energy, Ashes

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• The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.

  John Fowles

  Autumn, Lakes, Hands

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• That would be like making a pact with Lucifer. (Zarek) Yes, but I don’t smell like sulfur. And I happen to dress better. Luc always looks like a pimp. (Dionysus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pimp, Dresses, Would Be

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.321, Macmillan

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• There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Nice, Rain, Fall

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2006). “The Secret Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.136, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.

  Patrick Süskind

  Hands, Stronger, Able

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP

  Walt Disney

  Mailman, Wells, Prunes

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• Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone." "Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay." Apparently I was supposed to sniff people to determine their competence. "How do you know?" He shrugged. "You just have to trust her.

  Ilona Andrews

  Nice, People, Way

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• She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

  Shannon Hale

  Book, Dust, Library

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.262, A&C Black

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• To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed, Rhubarb or celery; The smoke's smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And all to sweetness turns. It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth, While the robin sings over again Sad songs of Autumn mirth." - A poem called DIGGING.

  Edward Thomas

  Song, Autumn, Dark

  Edward Thomas (2011). “Selected Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.85, Faber & Faber

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• In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dirty, Mean, Comfort

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Feet, Hair

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.289, Scholastic Inc.

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• When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Kids, Hands, Cinnamon

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• summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.

  Deb Caletti

  Summer, Quiet People, Grateful

  FaceBook post by Deb Caletti from Jul 20, 2015

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• I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something.

  Kim Harrison

  Cake, Hats, Breakfast

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• I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

  Ann Aguirre

  Stupid, Blonde, Noise

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.28, Penguin

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• The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Thinking, Chocolate, Kitchen

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• Ranger’s gonna hate this,” Tank said. “Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel.

  Janet Evanovich

  Horse, Hate, Tanks

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Plum Lucky”, p.93, Macmillan

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• People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

  John Green

  People, Different, Looks

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• We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.

  John Green

  Coffee, Winter, Kissing

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.139, Penguin

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• I'd kiss you, but you smell like a gym bag.

  Janet Evanovich

  Kissing, Bags, Gym

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.206, Macmillan

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• The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

  C. S. Lewis

  Beach, Sea, Waves Breaking

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• She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure. "You have to leave, Sara ... because I want to hold you like this until your skin melts into mine. I want you in my bed, the smell of you on my sheets, your hair spread across my pillow. I want to take your innocence. God! I want to ruin you for anyone else.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Voice, Hair, Skins

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