Ann Brashares Quotes

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

If you're walking down the street and you smell a scent, it can take you right back to a memorable time in your life, whether it's a moment with an ex-girlfriend or a childhood event.

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

I remember specific times and people in my life so much more clearly if I smell something that brings me back to them.

Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

You may almost forget the smell of your family.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories.

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.