320 Quotes About Smell

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

If she knew how beautiful love is, she would already put it in a box, seal, and preserve it.So she could smell it whenever she wants.

The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.

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.

Use your senses to SEE yourself for who you truly are. SMELL the flowers and become one with nature. TASTE the goodness of God. HEAR the truth. TOUCH the hearts of others with kindness and honest deeds.

A babe whose feet smell of fresh butter, of bodily smells of pancakes and milky goodness and “where the hair makes a cowlick” smells like caramel, so sweet.

Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing, yet combinations of them yield more encounters than can ever be experienced.

…more than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven.