Quote by Iain M. Banks Download Open image ““The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.”” — Iain M. Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“the creature belched a cloud of stink, the smell like rotting meat.” — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
“Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn’t been cleaned… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.” — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“the stench that greeted her inside instantly took her mind from the locked door. It was an overpowering odor, like a mixture of human… — Deanna Lynn Sletten Copy Share Image
“You’d think you’d know when something smells bad; But if you’ve lived among sewage your whole life, bad smells are normal. Everything else seems… — Melissa Abigail Copy Share Image
“we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“Bill could smell Its breath and it was a smell like exploded animals lying on the highway at midnight.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face could turn from peach to beetroot.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point the way to future success. But… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle down.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the city, then pushing forward the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Then the machine started to reel off infant-mortality rates and life-expectancy figures, sex ratios, types of diseases and their prevalence in the various strata… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“he saw that which cannot be seen; a concept; the adaptive, self-seeking urge to survive, to bend everything that can be reached to that… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Tell me, what is happiness?” “Happiness? Happiness... is to wake up, on a bright spring morning, after an exhausting first night spent with a… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
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