Dust Quote by Ole Gunnar Håland

“These days he smoked and drank largely to solace himself for what drinking and smoking had done to him, so he drank and smoked…

— Martin Amis (Author

“The cigarette hung unlit from his lips. Was he doomed to roam forever in his ghost state, always wanting to light that cigarette? A…

— Deanna Chase

“A hand of smoke took his hand, started him downward, if it was downward, showed him a centre, if it was a centre, put…

— Julio Cortázar

“Life was becoming shorter and the thought that he would never stop smoking filled him with a strange satisfaction. Ignoring the warning on the…

— Jo Nesbø

“His touch is more intoxicating than any kind and combination of alcohol...”

— Kiran Joshi

“He put a cigarette between his lips and I was transfixed. Smoking was a filthy habit, but I’d never wanted to be a cigarette…

— N.R. Walker

“I fished a cigarette from my pocket. After all, I had every reason to be content. I was not so badly off really; I…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It was agreeable to her, the smell of tobacco. It was part of her knowledge of his body. It was the aura of the…

— Don DeLillo

“With small nose, gross thighs, and those back-bent smoke-dyed fingers, he obliged me with this explanation, and he thought to have more effect on…

— Saul Bellow

“Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got used to…

— Henry James

“Harry lit up, drew the smoke deep into his lungs and tried to imagine the blood vessels in the wall of the lung greedily…

— Jo Nesbø

“And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy reclining body, draped…

— Mervyn Peake