"When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree."
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"Let him smell his way to Dover!"
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"They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit its nose."
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"Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?"
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"Marc/Faythe/Jace love triangle moment: "This isn't about you...." "Well, it should be!" he shouted, and I flinched. "Everything I do is about you, and I want the reverse to be true, too." I wiped more tears, my throat aching with words that would only make this worse. "What, you need a reminder? That's what he was doing, right? And now you smell like him. You probably taste like him. You should taste like me..." He was on me before I could even catch my breath."
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"Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now."
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"A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it."
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"A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry."
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"All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree."
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"The smell rewards the care."
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"Eighty percent of love is smell."
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"I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning."
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"You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water."
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"Prayer is like money - it has no smell."
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"It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid."
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"One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy."
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"I'm obsessed with smells even more than makeup."
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"One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do."
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"I don't think that women need to smell interesting."
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"It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself."
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