Quote by Jim Butcher

“I stood there for a second, savouring the smell of stale sweat and cheap beer. My feet stuck to the floor as I made…

— Grant Jolly

“In here was a smell of rotting book-bindings, dirty vinyl cushions that had been half-cooked in the hot suns of summers past, dust, mouse-turds.”

— Stephen King

“Dirty mugs crowded a side table, the recycling bin was overflowing, and stacks of letters stood unopened. It all told a tale of grief…

— Jane Harper

“A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my hand. The…

— Emma Cline

“all I was doing was sweeping everything under my bed. My room would look spotless but it was actually still a disgusting mess. The…

— James Altucher

“The floor was littered with paper cups and candy wrappers and cigarette butts and other teenager droppings. I saw a used condom under my…

— David Wong

“The furniture would have missed you? Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a…

— Ian McEwan

“Most houses were crammed with immovable objects in their proper places, and each object told you what to do - here you ate, here…

— Ian McEwan

“Over the years, I’d learned that under the bed was the best place to keep anything I didn’t want found, because there was so…

— Kristin Walker

“The stench that surrounded me suggested that the tarp over my face had been previously used either to transport fertiliser or as toilet paper.”

— Annabel Monaghan

“One time the scent of the old man appeared in the air: some combination of tobacco and citrus and soap. It was fleeting yet…

— Paul Yoon