The Scent of Hours Quotes

“Puffs of dust-scented air wafted around my ankles. The narrow wooden steps disappeared into yawning darkness, and even when I turned on the light, it wasn’t particularly inviting. I hate basements—spiders and water bugs and the possibility of creepy, supernatural things lurking.”
― Barbara Samuel, The Scent of Hours

“And yet, as a mother, I still felt I’d made the right decision. Daniel had advantages to offer that I simply could not. Because he was black and so was Giselle, painful as it was to go there. Because he did love his daughter madly, and maybe he’d made some points about the desirability of his being the primary parent.”
― Barbara Samuel, The Scent of Hours

“Women,” she said, “need to tell stories about what happens to them. That’s how we get it to make sense.” “Interesting. What do men do?” “Have heart attacks, and sex with strange women.”
― Barbara Samuel, The Scent of Hours

“takes us directly to visceral memories, transporting us to a time and place instantly.”
― Barbara Samuel, The Scent of Hours

“scent is the only sense that bypasses the brain and thought centers and goes directly to the limbic system?”
― Barbara Samuel, The Scent of Hours

“Women,” she said, “need to tell stories about what happens to them. That’s how we get it to make sense.”
― Barbara Samuel, The Scent of Hours

“It wasn’t that they were bad people. It just suddenly seemed to me that there wasn’t much room in their world for anyone who wasn’t just like them.”
― Barbara Samuel, The Scent of Hours

“The sweet potato salad from Spoonbread & Strawberry Wine.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Scent of Hours