The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Scent is the only sense that bypasses the conscious hypothalamus filter of the brain. It triggers an instant, uncontrollable reaction. I am… — Charlotte Tilbury Copy Share Image
“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again,… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell… — Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi Copy Share Image
“I believed I could identify the scent of the sky as I stood there, a blue menthol fragrance similar to the scent… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Annie believed taste and aromas had the power to transport people from the present to other places. Sometimes this was a journey… — Hannah Mary Rothschild Copy Share Image
“My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The Louis XIII style in perfumery, composed of the elements dear to that period - orris-powder, musk, civet and myrtle-water, already known… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Come on,” he said, and then dragged me toward the house. I stopped when we got to the porch. “What is that… — Kelly Oram Copy Share Image
“Lavender's my favorite scent, after White-Out and bacon rind. I sat down on the steps, not sure where to go next. A… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Home of mice and damp and the stink of stranded shellfish, as if a huge tide swept in decades ago and took… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open,… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
“If you have something to hide, I’m your worst nightmare. I’m a living, breathing, and walking lie detector. I can smell you… — Ashley Jeffery Copy Share Image
The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his life he had… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Like the idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“The problem is, we don’t exercise that control. Under normal circumstances, our state of openness is left to psychological factors. Basically, we… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson,… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“She's always sniffing the bottles in the spice cabinet." I didn't know she'd even noticed. At first it was just curiosity; why… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I've actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“I had stopped my chair at that exact place, coming out, because right there the spice of wisteria that hung around the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image