Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

“So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. That’s how badly people wanted it—to know that their lives had happened, that…

— Emma Cline

“It smells like old whore in here.”

— Brent Weeks

“Losing Grandma, just when I'd found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn't disguise the stench of death.”

— Ellen Hopkins

“Funny how the darkness smelled the same everywhere. She could have been anywhere in the universe, anywhere at all.”

— Anne Corlett

“As soon as we entered the shop, it smelled like a musty old trunk. Just an ungodly mix of fragrances I couldn’t name. “This…

— Dannika Dark

“He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a…

— Joan London

“That, too, was in the air itself -- a whisper of apology when the smell of the soil carried. There should be pumpkins in…

— Christian Crews

“You want us to go in there---seriously?" He stared at the cave. "It smells like death. Horrible, farty death.”

— Andrea Cremer

“She and her friends would talk about their husbands like they were children, or pets - some strange species responsible for bad smells and…

— Jennifer Weiner

“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

“Scent is the key to the door of memory. For a minute, she let herself live in it.”

— Meg Elison

“She smelled of sweet safe things I hadn’t smelt in years,”

— Tana French