Smell Quote by Bill Bryson

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools…

— A.E. Housman

“For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the sky. Chunks…

— Roberto Bolaño

“I keep my eyes on what I remember as the road, because when I first landed in the Meadow, I wasn’t careful and I…

— Suzanne Collins

“All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest up the…

— Arthur Golden

“Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring,…

— Bill Bryson

“I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the…

— Jodi Baker

“I couldn't take my eyes from those plumes of spray, the churning shards of light. Was this what the old man was afraid of?…

— Tim Winton

“I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes…

— Kamila Shamsie

“It was enough to make me feel like retreating into some wooded or snowy clime, where only the most determined photographers or Mary-hunters might…

— Tara Altebrando

“But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can…

— Norman Maclean

“I'm a frontiersman from the extreme edge of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave my study and come…

— Arthur Conan Doyle