Kitchen table Quote by Patti Smith

“She’s finished her cigarette but hasn’t put it out properly, so it’s still smoking in the ashtray. I crush mine into it, grinding until…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Me and Mama never did like the smell of cigarettes but after Daddy died, sometimes we would light one up and put it in…

— Sandi Morgan Denkers

“And I'd started thinking about my mother's last weeks--the way she'd drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in one hand,…

— Anna Davis

“She put a cigarette in her mouth and lit it, tasting the familiar taste of nicotine, smoke, and impending lung cancer. It felt good.…

— Mike Omer

“Opening the door quietly, I slipped in without switching on the light. From the entrance hall, I could see the dining room at the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“smarting and smoke was hanging thick in the air while the ashtray on Karras’s desk was mounded high with ashes and the twisted butts…

— William Peter Blatty

“My ashtray is full, the carton of cigarettes is empty, and I just cremated grandpa. But I never inhaled—or told him I loved him.”

— Jarod Kintz

“She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that…

— Raymond Chandler

“Come over here and light me a cigarette," she'd said. I'd snuck a little inhale, and my mother had smiled. But then she'd said,…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Nicotine addicted, persecuted, her day is a maddening circle of tea and biscuits, baking, smoking, the necessary fiction of the housewife.”

— James Claffey

“I had a dream about you. You had just died, and I was debating putting your body into either a coffin or a shoebox.…

— Jarod Kintz

“cigarettes before climbing out onto the fire escape for her monthly ritual. With a shaky hand, she flicked her lighter to life and lit…

— Jez Strider