Bottles Quote by Elsa Peretti

“She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors,…

— Don DeLillo

“The pictures she drew on were vibrant as ever, though. The crumbling stone farmstead overlooking the great Luberon valley where she was born. The…

— Deborah Lawrenson

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific…

— Blake Lively

“While the indecisive customer hovered over an array of perfumes that Nettle had brought out for her, the American girls browsed among the shelves…

— Lisa Kleypas

“She had magic in her pink palms and her cheeks lit to a lovely flame, like the thrilling flush of children after their cold…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my…

— John Slattery

“The table was prettily decorated with camellias from the orangery, and upon the snow-white tablecloth, amongst the clear crystal glasses, the old green wineglasses…

— Isak Dinesen

“Stupid women were lured into it and assured they would become young and beautiful if they let themselves be pummeled and pounded and smeared…

— Eva Ibbotson

I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy. I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table…

— Roja Dove

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her…

— Selenis Leyva

“All of the women in that time and place, Thea had learned, were stuffed into muslin and starched cotton and forced to sit ramrod-straight…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Her rocking chair of carved wood and woven cane tilted between this world and another that was beyond imagining, wafting scents of talcum and…

— Sonia Sotomayor