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“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered like a…

— Eric Overby

“She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that…

— Raymond Chandler

“cigarettes before climbing out onto the fire escape for her monthly ritual. With a shaky hand, she flicked her lighter to life and lit…

— Jez Strider

“She put a cigarette in her mouth and lit it, tasting the familiar taste of nicotine, smoke, and impending lung cancer. It felt good.…

— Mike Omer

“She leaves him sitting there, glancing back just once before going through the stairwell door and observing how the cloud of smoke from his…

— Alden Bell

“It was agreeable to her, the smell of tobacco. It was part of her knowledge of his body. It was the aura of the…

— Don DeLillo

“She extinguished her cigarette in the ashtray, where she left it to smolder in ferocious defeat.”

— John Herrick

“The cigarette hung unlit from his lips. Was he doomed to roam forever in his ghost state, always wanting to light that cigarette? A…

— Deanna Chase

“and on that thin-mooned night, I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked, the burning cherry of the cigarette…

— John Green

“She’s finished her cigarette but hasn’t put it out properly, so it’s still smoking in the ashtray. I crush mine into it, grinding until…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Victor’s shadow fell over her and she looked up. She was surprisingly attractive, twenty-eight or — nine, pain in her delicate features, terror in…

— Tom Wood

“He left soon afterwards, leaving her alone in the dark room, illuminated time to time by shocking leaps of heat lightning, and she thought,…

— Truman Capote