Fire Quote by Michael Chabon

“On the few occasions when we did visit my grandfather at the Evergreen Moral Home for the Aged Sick and Handicapped, I never wanted…

— Hwee Hwee Tan

“There's no sweeter stench than the scent of a burning baby”

— Lolita Files

“The place smelled of piss and mildew and stale beer. There was something else, too: the acrid sweat of the strung out—a smell that…

— Erik Storey

“It was a dead hole, smelling of synthetic leather and disinfectant, both of which odors seemed to emanate from the torn scratched material of…

— Paula Fox

“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

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

“I had a smell in my nose that just wouldn't go away, and I hated it. It was coating my lungs inside, I thought,…

— Charlaine Harris

“I still hadn’t understood; how there’s a certain smell to a dispossessed soul, acrid, bitter as smoke, the irrefutable odour of an angry refugee,…

— Elisabeth Gifford

I love the smell of gasoline in a car, but people hate it.

— Robby Hoffman

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

— Cyril Connolly

“I’m on the train, and the doors are shutting behind me, when I smell the smoke; or rather I’m stepping into the train, towards…

— William Leith

“I have been acquainted with the smell of death. The sickly, sugary smell that wafted in the wind towards the rooms in this palace.…

— Colm Tóibín