“Adrian: Do you smell that?"
Sydney: “I smell the paint, and… wait… is that pine?”
Adrian: “Damn straight. Pine-scented cleaner. As in, I cleaned. With these hands, these hands that don’t do manual labor.”
Source: Bloodlines
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“I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.”
Source: The Golden Lily
“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt it, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 18 (p. 166)
“Jack: Smell?… What do I want with smelling salts?”
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
Interview in Stop Smiling magazine (29 June 2007) http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=841&page=2]
“When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.”
Source: You Oughta Know By Now
“When I see the children of the martyrs, I want to smell their scent, and I lose myself.”
Quoted in Dexter Filkins (30 September 2013). "The Shadow Commander" http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/30/130930fa_fact_filkins?currentPage=all. The New Yorker.