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The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

— Anonymous

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell…

— Kami Garcia

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell…

— Scott Douglas

“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in…

— Terry Pratchett

“People like to be shown around archives. I don’t know why. I’m in the business, but one row of shelves stuffed with manila files…

— V.T. Davy

“One time the scent of the old man appeared in the air: some combination of tobacco and citrus and soap. It was fleeting yet…

— Paul Yoon

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

— Elizabeth Kostova

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page…

— Anonymous

“The novels, travel books and poems I read had a particular smell. The smell of cellars. An almost spicy smell, a mixture of dust…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

“My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers. True you…

— Jodi Picoult

The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than…

— Maggie Stiefvater