Quote by Durga Chew-Bose Download Open image ““Until you write what is detectable but dislodges you. Like the smell of cinnamon.”” — Durga Chew-Bose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I wondered just… — Heather Rose Copy Share Image
“Thoughts and lips can lie, feelings concealed, but scent will betray even the most careful of spies. The scent will silently tell the truth” — Elena Levon Copy Share Image
“tactile than olfactory—but I could discern nothing else about it.” — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
“Everything around me smelled musty, like when you open an old book and it smells like words.” — Meg Leder Copy Share Image
“there is the smell, too, of course -- the reassuring smell of paper, new paper, soft old paper, recalling each person to the first… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“No one knows the scent of books, or the scent of perfume, until someone opens them.” — Omaid Ahmadzai Copy Share Image
“Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true” — Snow Patrol Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .” — Tiffany King Copy Share Image
“I like using scented markers. Especially when I’m trying to color the inside of my nostrils.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Smell unlocks your past. It brings you back to another time you didn’t know you had in you to remember.” — Nadine Bjursten Copy Share Image
“A woman carries her inner life—lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her—while nourishing another’s inner life,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There’s strength in observing one’s miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn’t smallness prime… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“When those fault lines inside of us quake on account of all that is built up and unkempt between two people in love—on account… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There's a recording of Nina Simone's "Ain't Got No", where Simone, after listing all the things she doesn't have - a home, shoes, money,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Nook people confuse emotional truth with other varieties of truth. They are a composite of the last person who complimented them and the next… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There’s might too in the incomplete. In feeling fractional. A failure to carry out is perhaps no failure at all, but rather a minced… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Even then, when time decelerates and the relative importance of our lives, of our hurry, undergoes a sudden, essential audit; even then, our heart… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Like the hurt we cause when we've been enduring too much in silence and have started to trust our own fixed claim that everything… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused me to… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
