Quote by Jarod Kintz

“This is not an apartment in which fresh vegetables are consumed. It smells like a dead spice rack.”

— Douglas Coupland

“Shit happens, but it only stinks as long as you keep it around.”

— Lisa Renee Jones

“I found a big container and put a bit of water in it, then added the dried shit. Since then, I’ve added my own…

— Andy Weir

“The smell slaps me sideways. Like when Mom grabs a container she forgot about from the back of the fridge and she says, “Here…

— Mick Bogerman

“the creature belched a cloud of stink, the smell like rotting meat.”

— Paul S. Kemp

“If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?”

— Rachel Caine

“Words pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.”

— John Steinbeck

“...the unmistakable smell of poverty, a mixture of cigarette smoke, weed, stale sweat, and fried food.”

— Allison Leotta

“I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“Ugh. That smell. It always conjures up hated memories of the stupid jar of pennies my father had kept on the window sill in…

— Mark Tufo

“This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places.”

— Larissa Lai