Poetical Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“It seemed odd that a man's smell should cling in the folds of a curtain so long after the man himself had become dead…

— Graham Greene

“Then he reached to an even higher shelf and brought down another plastic grocery bag, this one from Tesco, which is decidedly less upscale.…

— David Sedaris

“Letting go of the pipe in the laundry room, he could feel in his throat so many sentences from the night's reading of emails,…

— Andre Dubus III

“The old man was in agony because of gas. He farted tremendously, and then he belched.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What is that *smell*?" Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.”

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

“He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink!”

— Rick Riordan

“The truth is like a septic tank and the smell will eventually get out no matter how hard we tighten down the hatch.”

— George Sorbane

“Even worse, there was a smell. Musky and warm, like old blood. It made his throat close, and he wanted to wretch.”

— Victor LaValle

“He smelled like smoke and laundered sheets left to dry in the sun.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“He wanted nothing more than to bury his nose in her armpits and pubis, inhaling those earthy odors cached in her peculiarly scant body…

— Jennifer Foehner Wells

“The stuff smelled nasty: like gasoline and dirty socks mixed with something sweet. Kind of like Buckley’s cough syrup.”

— Coreene Callahan

“...he stank more than any human joe had ever smelled, as if he had been dipped in some ungodly confection of camembert and rancid…

— Michael Chabon