Book-lovers Quote by Kimberly Krey

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

When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right…

— Adam Rapp

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room…

— Joe Hill

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

“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

“Gee, thanks." I couldn't sound more sarcastic, but I was willing to give it a try. My breathing evened out. "What are you here…

— Lili St. Crow

“I closed my eyes and let out a breath that smelled like I’d eaten an entire wet dog and washed it down with sweat…

— David Wong

“...he smelled like somebody trying to smell like somebody else.”

— Tim Farrington

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

— Bryn Greenwood

“Hatred had invaded her entire being; every cell in her body had hatred in it. She wondered if everyone could smell it on her.…

— R.L. Griffin