Years ago Quote by Daryl Gregory

“I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something.”

— Taffy Brodesser-Akner

“He lit another cigarette and inhaled deeply, the tip flaring an angry red. “Isn’t love a beautiful goddamn liar?”

— Paula McLain

“I'm trying to quit,” he said. “Just so you know.” He lit the cigarette and inhaled so long and so deep it sounded like…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I throw one to him, next thing you know Im at the grocery store, the bar, the titty club, and every dumb motherf*cker I…

— Kenny Powers

“I lit a cigarette, using the matches I always carried in my left pocket, the song playing inside hit the backdoor and then my…

— Sanne van Dolder

“The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that…

— Rupert Thomson

“Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a…

— Anthony Liccione

“Olivia lit a cigarette and said, "God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere!”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Sometimes, when I’m chain smoking on the balcony and feeling like shit (which happens more often than I’d like to admit), I let go…

— Kris Kidd

“I lit a cigarette and dragged a smoking stand beside the chair. The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.…

— Raymond Chandler

If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for…

— Lauren Bacall

“Alan Beaumont stepped through the automatic door of his office building and down the broad steps to the pavement. The sky above DC was…

— Tom Wood