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Smell Quotes by Lauren Oliver

11 Smell quotes by Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver has a knack for weaving smell into her narratives, and these eleven excerpts showcase how a simple aroma can shift mood or reveal character. They form a concise snapshot of her talent for turning the invisible into a tactile experience.

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“The air smells like gasoline. The air smells like fire. I”

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“The smell of oranges has always reminded me of funerals.”

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“He sprayed on a bit of this man’s body-spray thing his mom had gotten for free at Walmart, feeling like a douche,…

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“It's like the smell of bread baking at Subway. You know it's not the way nature or God intended it to smell,…

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But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets,…

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What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe,…

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I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the…

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My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you…

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“We no longer pay attention to the clocks. Why should we? Noon is the taste of sawdust, and the feel of a…

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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…

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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…

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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

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“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside…

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“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.”

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People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

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Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had…

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Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

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I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble…

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“Julian is somewhere among those lights, in that blur of people and buildings. I wonder whether he's scared. I wonder whether he's thinking of…

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A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a…

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“She’s the kind of person who makes you feel drunk just by being around her, like suddenly the world’s edges are dulled and all…

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“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me?…

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..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like…

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“You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.”

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