Scent Quotes - Page 17

• I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Taste, Wanted

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Eye, Promise

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.459, Penguin

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• For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

  Patrick Süskind

  Brother, Hate, Heart

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• September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.

  Louis MacNeice

  Wall, Autumn, Kissing

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Autumn Journal”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Song, Night

  Enid Blyton (2016). “The Secret Island”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• He froze as the scent of her hair met him. It was touching his cheek,tickling him. I cant afford this, he thought, but he didnt move, watching her finger trace the new line. "He cracked my mirror,"she said, clearly angry.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, Mirrors, Hair

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• Rather than raising his voice like everyone else, he leaned close to my ear and asked, "Dance with me?" I felt his warm breath and inhale the scent of his aftershave -something basic and male.

  Tammara Webber

  Voice, Males, Ears

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• I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.

  Tammara Webber

  Noses, Mouths, Safe

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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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