Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Helen Edwards

Quote by Helen Edwards

Work

Nothing Sexier Than Freedom

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Helen Edwards

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Helen Edwards. more

You May Also Like

“As I took off the rumpled sheets, the smell of the people who had slept in them would lift up into the air. There was the round, almost sweet sweat smell of a child who had spent a day happily exploring, or the sharper-edged odor of one who'd gone to bed unhappy. With the bigger beds, I came to understand the way the scents of two people could mingle as effortlessly as rainwater, and to recognize the times they stayed apart, the smells resolutely separate. Sometimes there were those unreal perfumes, jumbling and talking too loudly- but underneath them I could always find the person. Sadness, like the dark purple juice of a blackberry. Fear, like the metallic taste of an oncoming storm. Love, which smelled like nothing so much as fresh bread. In an odd way, the game wasn't that different from reading the smells of our island. Scents were always about what was growing and what was dying. What would last through the next season. This was just with people instead of trees or flowers or dirt.”

EmotionsGuessingScentsBeds
Book:The Scent Keeper
Create image

“—Cuando se hace referencia a las emociones básicas y universales —inició éste su predicamento, apenas audible por el murmullo de la plaza—, se está aludiendo a cuatro emociones negativas (el miedo, la rabia, el asco y la tristeza), y a dos positivas (la sorpresa y la alegría). Al analizar su impacto, se ha descubierto algo que se desconocía totalmente y que ha transformado los mecanismos de comunicación y aprendizaje de cara al futuro. »El predominio de tantas emociones negativas, la gran mayoría, obedecerá a alguna razón; si han sobrevivido tantos años será porque cumplen algún objetivo evolutivo. Tal vez es inútil intentar suprimir erradicándolos el miedo, la ira, el asco o desprecio y la tristeza. Tal vez lo que cuenta, lo que ha permitido garantizar la supervivencia de los humanos, ha sido el aprendizaje de la gestión del miedo o la tristeza.”

Emotions
Book:El sueño de Alicia
Create image