The first place smelled like work, so I took the second.

“Even with the high-tech air filtration system in a modern facility, the place still smelled like archival storage: old paper, stale manila folders, cardboard,…

— Carrie Vaughn

I've stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars' worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or…

— Scarlett Johansson

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like…

— Georges Simenon

The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The place smelled of piss and mildew and stale beer. There was something else, too: the acrid sweat of the strung out—a smell that…

— Erik Storey

And I thought I was over you, I was wrong, it only took a second when I saw u again to realize, I still…

— Anonymous

No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.

— Enzo Ferrari

“It only took a second to fire a kill shot.”

— Jordyn Redwood

It was love at first sight. Then I took a second look!

— Hussein Nishah

“Vic smelled the vast vault filled with books before she saw it, because her eyes required time to adjust to the cavernous dark. She…

— Joe Hill

“His coat smelled like Irish Spring and a little bit like potpourri.”

— Rainbow Rowell

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell…

— Kami Garcia

“He smelled good. Sweat and motorcycle and wintergreen. No stinking weed smoke. No perfume. No sadness. He smelled like love.”

— Bryn Greenwood

“She wondered if everyone could smell it on her. It smelled like death and coffee, like lilies and dirt, and it permeated her.”

— R.L. Griffin

When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it…

— Kate Atkinson