Scent Quotes - Page 16

I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!" "Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!" "Bah, your brain isn't on board!

Rick Riordan

Blood, Brain, Boards

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As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Eye, Blue, Heathers

Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.66, GENERAL PRESS

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A tall blonde entered the room, wearing a yellow sash that marked her as advocate. Two men followed her, carrying papers. She was lean and long-legged, with a graceful neck and nice ankles, and William took a minute to watch her come down the aisle. She looked high-strung and difficult. Still, good legs. Mmm, smelled of mimosa, too. Expensive scent. Cerise smelled better, when clean.

Ilona Andrews

Nice, Men, Two

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He reached forward then took me in his arms, held me close for a moment, the breath of snow and ashes cold around us. Then he kissed me, released me, and I took a deep breath of cold air, harsh with the scent of burning.

Diana Gabaldon

Air, Snow, Ashes

Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.5608, Dell

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They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours old and mixed with horse scents. She was hitchhiking. Great. Awesome. At least she always carried a knife with her. When I relayed this to Curran he shrugged and said, "If she kills anybody we'll make it go away.

Ilona Andrews

Horse, Knives, Two

Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.88, Penguin

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I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

Barbara Kingsolver

Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

Laurell K. Hamilton

Taken, Heart, Gun

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Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?

Ilona Andrews

Air, Long, Monsters

Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.73, Penguin

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Gone were but the Winter,
Come were but the Spring,
I would go to a covert
Where the birds sing;

Where in the whitethorn
Singeth a thrush,
And a robin sings
In the holly-bush.

Full of fresh scents
Are the budding boughs
Arching high over
A cool green house:

Full of sweet scents,
And whispering air
Which sayeth softly:
We spread no snare;

Here dwell in safety,
Here dwell alone,
With a clear stream
And a mossy stone.

Here the sun shineth
Most shadily;
Here is heard an echo
Of the far sea,
Though far off it be.

Christina Rossetti

Sweet, Spring, Winter

Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.11, OUP Oxford

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Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

Rumi

Song, Carpe Diem, Heaven

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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

Ellen Glasgow

Spring, Flower, Air

Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.224, The Floating Press

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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

Alexander Pope

Wise, Coffee, Eye

Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.

Monica Baldwin

Fall, Healing, Autumn

Monica Baldwin (1950). “I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-eight Years in a Convent”

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My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

Robert Frost

Fall, Sleep, Winter

Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.94, Coyote Canyon Press

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In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

Richard Louv

Nature, Curves, Needs

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

Bette Midler

Smell, Infidelity, Pace

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As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

Charles Darwin

Smell, Taste, Should

Charles Darwin (1872). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.259

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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

Helen Keller

Summer, Sweet, Memories

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Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

Thomas Jefferson

Spring, Flower, Winter

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I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.

Janet Fitch

Dark, Smell, Female

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If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.

William Kitchiner

Food, Smell, Ifs

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As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

Zoe Tapper

Nibbling, Cheese, Students

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I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.

Tamara Mellon

August, Rooms, Months

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When a dog is really comfortable, they give off a certain scent and you can smell it on their paws.

Booboo Stewart

Dog, Smell, Giving

"Q&A: Teen player Booboo Stewart is latest 'Twilight' breakout". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. November 15, 2011.

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The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

Jean Lorrain

Blood, Needs, Shade

Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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