Smell Quotes - Page 29

• Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Swans, Bella Swan

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• I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

  Mira Grant

  Princess, Skins, Baths

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• From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Song, Sleep, Breathing

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

  David Levithan

  Hair, Use, Shampoo

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.174, Macmillan

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• A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers." "Why, that was lovely, Lord Bill. Do you ever write poetry? Something for your blueblood lady?" "No." "She doesn't like poetry?" "Leave it." Hehe. "Oh, so you have a lady. How interes--

  Ilona Andrews

  Writing, Autumn, Expression

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.55, Penguin

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• What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips. "I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fire, Heaven, Skins

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• Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth." Itachi: You've learnt a lot...Dr. Snakes

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Snakes, Drs, Mouths

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• Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.

  Dorianne Laux

  Girl, Sweet, Rain

  Dorianne Laux (2000). “Smoke: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• On My First Driving Lesson “First things first: A car has five gears. What is that smell?…Okay, first thing before that first thing: Farting in a car that’s not moving makes you an asshole.

  Justin Halpern

  Moving, Car, Gears

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• You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Air, Cry, Draws

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Book, Titles, Texture

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• Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

  Janette Rallison

  Motherhood, Men, Promise

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Y’all might as well come on out,” I said. “I know you’re there. I can smell you.” “Smell me? But I just took a shower this morning!” an indignant voice drifted out of the shadows. There was a loud sound, like someone was getting smacked upside the head. Then another voice let out a low mutter. “Shut up, idiot.

  Jennifer Estep

  Morning, Voice, Shadow

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “By a Thread”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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• THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on the bed, glaring at the wall. “Thank God,” he says, pressing his forehead to the door. “I was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to … smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff.

  Veronica Roth

  Wall, Flower, Thinking

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• The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.
  "Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says.
  "Wouldn't dream of it," I say.

  Veronica Roth

  Dream, Nice, Fire

  "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth, Ch. 36, (pp. 389-390), May 1, 2012.

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• She could smell the boy spice beneath the thrift-store aroma of his jacket, and the rubbing and the smell began to work to soften her -- like butter before you add sugar, in the first steps of making something sweet. It was her first experience of how bodies could meld together, how breath could slip naturally into rhythm. It was hypnotic. Heady. And she wanted more.

  Laini Taylor

  Sweet, Boys, Together

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• 17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Butterfly, Dust, Years

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• Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.

  Kathy Reichs

  Writing, Hygiene, It Takes A Village

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.53, Penguin

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• Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.

  Laini Taylor

  Shining, Cleanliness, Gray Area

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.203, Hachette UK

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• I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Religious, Hate

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Nov 17, 2012

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• Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.

  Stephen King

  Book, Home, Doors

  Stephen King (1993). “The Waste Lands”, Signet Book

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• For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.586, Delphi Classics

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• There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Fuel, Burned

  "Booksellers talk big, act quietly at convention" by Hillel Italie, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 1, 2008.

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• He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Want, Littles

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.620, Bantam

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• Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.

  Kim Harrison

  Coffee

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