Hygiene Quote by Halldór Laxness

“She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.”

— Kat Rosenfield

“She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile…

— Carolyn Brown

“Water sluices away soap and grime, even some of the shame comes with it. If she were to scrub for a thousand years she…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“She read like a woman drinks water after nearly dying of dehydration.”

— Shannon Hale

“Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like.”

— Patrick McGrath

“No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one…

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

“It hadn't taken very long to come clean, after so many years of so many lies. It was surprising how undifferent she felt, now…

— Chris Pavone

“She felt faintly embarrassed by the sheer profusion of things she had for putting in baths, but she was for some reason incapable of…

— Douglas Adams

“She figured out that the only way 
to keep from being frozen was to 
stay in motion, and long ago converted
 most of her…

— Judy Grahn

“She was a clay pot, and she’d been broken in pieces. There used to be something inside her, and now that it had spilled…

— Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

“Instead, she looked vaguely about, sniffing that familiar smell of fresh dirtiness which belongs to mankind’s extreme youth, a pleasant smell to mothers. Henny…

— Christina Stead