Smell Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it…

— Kate Atkinson

“Abby took the box, and then tugged on my hand until we were in the entryway. It smelled like a combination of cleaner, candles,…

— Jamie McGuire

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

— Sarah Schulman

“He smelled like family... and Javier, but I took that as a good sign.”

— R.K. Lilley

“His coat smelled like Irish Spring and a little bit like potpourri.”

— Rainbow Rowell

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell…

— Kami Garcia

“He smelled good. Sweat and motorcycle and wintergreen. No stinking weed smoke. No perfume. No sadness. He smelled like love.”

— Bryn Greenwood

“She wondered if everyone could smell it on her. It smelled like death and coffee, like lilies and dirt, and it permeated her.”

— R.L. Griffin

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled…

— Irving Stone

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

— Beatrice Lillie

It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. “I would…

— D.E. Stevenson

I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son,…

— Marilynne Robinson