I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
– George Gissing
Related Quotes:
- It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart. – JEB Spredemann
- There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos. – Scott Douglas
- Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths. – Josephine Hart
- I don’t advise. You mutn’t give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it. – George Gissing
- You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friends nose. – John Green
- you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friends nose. – John Green
- A nose is ordinarily naked. A nose isn’t nipple, although there are similarities. – Graham Spaid
- Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short. – Sofija
- I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips. – Leah Spiegel
- It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt… – Ray Bradbury
- I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- Have you ever paused to be Grateful? For eyes to see, nose to smell, ears to hear, tongue to taste, hands to feel, head to think and heart to love? – RVM
- You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live. – JD Salinger
- I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. – Jennifer Donnelly
- The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. – Jay Kristoff
- A red nose is the clown’s mask and my moustache is mine. – Nuno Roque
- I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me… I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside. – Elizabeth C Bunce
- Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. – Neil Gaiman
- Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be – Unknown
- I love the paradise of being between the pages of a book. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be. – Tony Collins
- Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore. – Khadija Rupa
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded -“ unless I read the book. – Bauvard
- The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear. – Camilla Gibb
- Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it’s the smell of schizophrenia. – Thomas Harris
- Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear. – Indu Muralidharan
- She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar. – Stephen King
- Everyone knows a Wixen when we smell one. You smell the prettiest, a mixture of strawberries, sex and deceit. Dior should bottle it. – Beverley Price
- I can smell your blood now. I can smell it in every room of the house. – Jolie du Pre
- He can smell his cologne, his shampoo, and something else — he can smell the boy’s own scent, something bittersweet. – Lidia Roldn
- Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home. – John Berger
- Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world. – Ian Fleming
- Remy tilted his head to sniff the air. -œI love that smell.- He turned his head to look over his shoulder. -œThe smell of fear. – Isaiyan Morrison
- I am a guardian of sorts.-- Liam (Marked Book #1) page 171 – AN Meade
- Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
- If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. – Anne Fadiman
- A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there. – JR Ward
- People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. – George Eliot