Memory Quote by Victor Hugo

“...memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“fragrance was the sharpest trigger of memory, a transport into forgotten worlds.”

— Anne Rice

“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among…

— Paul Auster

“It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.”

— Mary Balogh

“The smell of him when he was sleeping, the sound of his breathing -- that was home and everything I wanted at the end…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance.”

— Christopher Poindexter

“He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.”

— Rhian Ellis

“He felt, sometimes, like the keeper of memories-the one who had to facilitate that invisible transition between the way it used to be and…

— Jodi Picoult

“You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from the smell.”

— Beth Revis

“He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that was somehow…

— Stephen King

“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

“You smell of shadows and dreams. And dead things.”

— Alexis Hall