Scent Quote by Bernhard Schlink

In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly…

— Bernhard Schlink

It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't…

— Maynard James Keenan

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

— Marlene Dietrich

“Taking her completely by surprise, he leaned down and strapped her in, his face only inches from hers as he took his time. He…

— Katie Reus

“In the morning the whole world had a strange new smell. It was the smell of the aftermath, a green smell, a smell of…

— A.S. Byatt

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was…

— Robert Goolrick

“I took a deep, overly exaggerated breath, the sort of over-the-top gesture that was filmed for commercials about scented laundry detergent, but in this…

— Dee Williams

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

— Rachel Kushner

“He grew up never letting his mother wash his hockey equipment, preferring instead to air it outdoors, because he loved the smell so much.”

— Shawna Richer

“I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk…

— Frederick Barthelme

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

— Barbara Michaels