“When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.”
Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer
Source: You Oughta Know By Now
“The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.”
— Margaret Atwood, book Cat's Eye
Source: Cat's Eye
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