Quotes about Smells

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It smells terrible in here.'Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we ten — John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
So it’s fate then?” I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, “Us being together?”“A — E.J. Stevens
I love the smell of book ink in the morning. — Umberto Eco
It's strange how quickly the significance of of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take th — Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can't help smiling? Why is there such an a — Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup
Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second an — Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth
Her mother had smelled of cold and scales, her father of stone dust and dog. She imagined her husband's mother, whom she — Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smel — Dodie Smith
The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood — Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box
It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories. — Mary Balogh, Web of Love
What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculptur — Roman Payne
A traditional house smelled of wood smoke, the earth, and of thatch; all good smells, the smell of life itself. — Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men
It was evangelicals' sense of rudderlessness - their desire for an authority to guide them in questions of dogma, life, — Molly Worthen, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
So on Christmas morning I was up at five o'clock, making the fire as bright as a furnace, baking minc'd pies and boiling — Martine Bailey, An Appetite for Violets
She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A g — Keirsten White
Then his tears came once more, and feeling cold he went into his dressing-room to look for something to throw around his — Marcel Proust, Jean Santeuil
Back inside, I’m shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their homegrown produce, dried h — Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation
Endless love and voluptuous appetite pervaded this stifling nave in which settled the ardent sap of the tropics. Renée w — Émile Zola, La Curée
I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells:body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of opp — Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pin — Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story