Smell Quotes - Page 32

• You smell good." "It's called a shower. Soap, shampoo, water-" "Naked. I know the drill.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Water, Naked, Soap

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• There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine, are a surprise. They are warm, light as breath, firm as the give of a peach against my mouth. A scent like scorched cinnamon hangs in the air, but I'm not falling into any vision. It's his smell in me. A smell that makes my stomach drop through my feet. A smell that pushes all thought out of my head and replaces it with an overpowering hunger for more.

  Libba Bray

  Fall, Kissing, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Real, Angel, Hands

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Dec 05, 2011

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• If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" - Qyburn

  George R. R. Martin

  Soul, Rooms, This Life

  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.1959, Bantam

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• Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

  Tove Jansson

  Memories, Important, Persons

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• He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Oil, Mountain, Lamps

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• Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Reading, Wish

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “The Land of Laughs: A Novel”, p.88, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Paper

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• It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

  Robert Jordan

  Stupid, Evil, Knows

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.282, Macmillan

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• I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Ocean, Different, World

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• I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.

  Lucy Christopher

  Coffee, Fire, Light

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

  Mary Karr

  Real, Names, Suffering

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Flower, Sunset

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• I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Hangover, Monotonous Life, Knowing

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• The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

  Anne Sexton

  Song, Voice, Snow

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Wonderful, Sexiest

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• I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …‘But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, I Like You, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.101, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose either. If we didn't get our hearts stomped on, shattered: if we didn't have to patch and repatch until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together and bound up by who knows what. If we could just float along, like snow. But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosions of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Flower, Sunset

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• When I lie this close to you, when I smell your scent, when I hear your voice, I know everything that matters." She looked down the length of him. "You are the male I want to mate with. That's who you are.

  J.R. Ward

  Lying, Voice, Males

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.107, Penguin

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• It’s a risk I’m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction … you touch her skin and it’s the best skin you’ve ever felt, and no perfume on earth could be better than her smell, and you know you could never be bored with her because she’s interesting even when she’s doing nothing. Even without knowing everything about her, you get her. You know who she is, and it works for you on every level.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Crazy, Knowing Everything, Bored

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• I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Blue, Kitchen

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• I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

  Jim Morrison

  Sleep, Missing, Mind

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• A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.

  Laini Taylor

  Pauses

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.

  Rick Riordan

  Flesh Eating, Scare, Monsters

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• You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Writing, Filling Up

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