Sniffing Quotes - Page 3

• I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

  Pablo Neruda

  Twilight, Heart, Hunting

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

  Willie Morris

  Dog, Taken, Eye

  Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.3, Vintage

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• I've been sniffing out the guys in my English class (to the extent that this is possible without getting my throat cut), but they smell the same way they always do: like feet and testicles. As opposed to freesias. I don't want to keep sniffing them, Lyd. - Letter from Seb to Lyd.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Cutting, Class, Smell

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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• Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

  Candace Bushnell

  Dog, Hair, Guy

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• I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.” “You’ve never sniffed glue!” “I’ve smelled glue,” Jamie said after a pause. “In art class.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Art, Class, Glue

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Writing, Adventure, Animal

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