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• To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

  Arundhati Roy

  Wall, Book, Looks

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.52, Penguin Books India

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• The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

  Claudia Gray

  Wall, Book, Dark

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• What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

  Gregory Maguire

  Memories, Real, Heart

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• and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.

  John Burnside

  Autumn, Dark, Squares

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• Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​

  Mira Grant

  Past, Weakness, Scent

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• This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

  Aberjhani

  Love Is, Unity, Sound

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.

  Bella Pollen

  Heart, Unhappy, Skins

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Wind, Age

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.307, Random House

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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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• Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

  Jennifer Egan

  Fear, Scent, Vinegar

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.77, Anchor

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• You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

  Aravind Adiga

  Sweet, Men

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. "Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.

  Brenda Jackson

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Fighting

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• Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Sweet, Long

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• What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

  Jim Thompson

  May, Stink, Stores

  Jim Thompson (2014). “Murder at the Bijou”, p.43, BookBaby

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• Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Air, Guitar

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.

  Robert Cormier

  Hurt, Lying, Mean

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Tenderness”, p.32, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak.

  Patrick Ness

  Lying, Clothes, Safety

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• I can smell you, Ms. Lane," he said, even more softly. "The only blood on you is from your veins, not your womb." My head whipped to the left and I stared at him. Ok, that was one of the more disturbing things he'd ever said to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Blood, Veins, Lanes

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.599, Dell

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• The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!

  Adam Gidwitz

  Air, Sweat, Cooking

  Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.26, Penguin

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• All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.

  Charles de Lint

  Rain, Mean, Voice

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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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