Book Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better.…

— Ray Bradbury

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to…

— Anonymous

“When I am dead and in my head And all my bones are are rotten, Take this book and think of me And mind…

— Flora Thompson

“Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a long time ago.”

— Amanda Craig

“No one knows the scent of books, or the scent of perfume, until someone opens them.”

— Omaid Ahmadzai

“For the first time, I smelled her. I can't describe the smell. Flowery, yet somehow musty, like a beautiful woman with the soul of…

— Caris O'Malley

“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. ”

— Haruki Murakami

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

— George Gissing

“The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.”

— Fumiko Enchi

It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line…

— Janet Fitch

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived,…

— Lauren Willig

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room…

— Joe Hill