Books Quote by Ann Kelley

“You want to know what death is! I’ll tell you what it is—death is the living forgetting you! What you smell like and look…

— J.R. Ward

“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to…

— Oscar Wilde

“Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.”

— Carol Weekes

“I have been acquainted with the smell of death. The sickly, sugary smell that wafted in the wind towards the rooms in this palace.…

— Colm Tóibín

“I know what death smells like. Death smells like gasoline, singed hair and fingernails. It smells like cooking meat. My meat.”

— Rasmenia Massoud

“When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness?”

— Mary Oliver

“Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.”

— Fern Schumer Chapman

“Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.”

— Meredith Duran

“Whether my mortality caught me at twenty-eight or ninety-three, I made the choice to die content, slipped into the nothingness, my atoms becoming the…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Death is not seductive. It does not come silk-clad and sweet-smelling as I did for my chosen. It is lonely and cold and merciless.…

— Karen Marie Moning

“For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to understand what…

— Julian Barnes

“Death smelled like sadness.”

— Leslye Walton