39-clues Quote by Jude Watson

“History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things. In coat hangers. Tomatoes. In the tar on roads.…

— Arundhati Roy

“Scent is like a kiss of time travel which transports one to an ancient memorable occasion.”

— Evans Biya

“Everything around me smelled musty, like when you open an old book and it smells like words.”

— Meg Leder

“I want to remember...Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell…

— Carew Papritz

“He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a…

— Joan London

“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

“He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees,…

— Elizabeth Enright

“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

“An astonishing, curdled smell that had subtle layers of foulness for the nose to explore.”

— Andrew Michael Hurley

“I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).”

— Annie Dillard

“Books always had such a wonderful smell. Everywhere in the world. There was always something familiar about that. Something constant. I took a moment…

— Sarah Kleck

“What is that *smell*?" Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.”

— Keith R.A. DeCandido