“This was a solitary walk where the sun and the scents of wild flowers would act on a tortured mind like a soothing drug.”

— Lindsey Davis, book See Delphi and Die

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English novelist 1949

Susan Polis Schutz (1944) American poet

“Every scent is the sun’s scent.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator

“The Land,” p. p. 91
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Nostalgic Elements”

“Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent
Of odours in unhaunted deserts.”

William Chamberlayne (poet)

Pharonida (1659), Part II, Book IV.

“She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]….”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

“It matters not its history; love has wings
Like lightning, swift and fatal, and it springs
Like a wild flower where it is least expected,
Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

A Girl at her Devotions. By Newton
The Troubadour (1825)

“I defend torture. A drug dealer who acts on the streets against our children must to be immediately put on a pau-de-arara.”

Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect

There would be no human rights in this case. There would be pau-de-arara, beating. The same thing for kidnappers. The guy must be broken to open his mouth. <br class="br"> "Eu defendo a tortura" https://web.archive.org/web/20000526120540/http://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/28/reportagens/entrev_jair.htm. IstoÉ Gente (14 February 2000).

“I would beat him. You can be sure of that. If acting with energy is torturing, he'll be tortured.”

Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect

About if one of his sons used drugs, in an interview to the program CQC on Band. Bolsonaro diz na TV que seus filhos não 'correm risco' de namorar negras ou virar gays porque foram 'muito bem educados' https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/bolsonaro-diz-na-tv-que-seus-filhos-nao-correm-risco-de-namorar-negras-ou-virar-gays-porque-foram-muito-bem-educados-2804755; O Globo (29 March 2011).

“Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“Tis something, if in absence we can see
The footsteps of the past: it soothes the heart
To breathe the air scented in other years
By lips beloved; to wander through the groves
Where once we were not lonely”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Guerilla Chief
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men — how about "New Car Interior?"”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

Essay 16: "Flirting with Success", p. 61
Naked Beneath My Clothes (1992)

“This was a solitary walk where the sun and the scents of wild flowers would act on a tortured mind like a soothing drug.”

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