Quotes on Odor

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.