Smell Quote by Donna Tartt

“whatever reason, an evening nodding and unconscious in my bedroom at Hobie’s had begun to seem like a perfectly reasonable response to the holiday…

— Donna Tartt

“Coals gleamed in the hearth and the air was fragrant with pine branches, frankincense, and lapsang souchong tea. It was New Year’s Day.”

— Neal Stephenson

“I closed my eyes and let out a breath that smelled like I’d eaten an entire wet dog and washed it down with sweat…

— David Wong

“The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort…

— Ami McKay

“...-smells and sounds I'd grown up with and known every year of my life until then but that had suddenly turned on me and…

— André Aciman

“Everything in the house turned damp; the blue fur of mildew crept furtively over any object left standing for the briefest length of time:…

— Anita Desai

“I left the house at around midnight and crept up the driveway to the road. I wore canvas sneakers, athletic socks, safari shorts, a…

— Donald Antrim

“These old houses are only brick and wood, soaked in human sweat, grained with human dirt.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The living room was still dark, because of the heavy growth of the shrubbery the owner had allowed to mask the windows. I put…

— Raymond Chandler

“The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for life. It…

— Rachel Autumn Deering

“He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees,…

— Elizabeth Enright

“We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a…

— Ian McEwan