Christmas Quote by Robert Zverina

“The room held the pungent smell of hospitals: powerful disinfectants and fear.”

— Kenneth McKenzie Todd Harra

“They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring…

— Max Gladstone

“The doctor had been dousing her hands with a sort of ointment they use, scented like bad gin. It is a ritual with them.”

— Neal Stephenson

“The smell of the eucalyptus had wafted for miles offshore from Albany, and when the scent faded away he was suddenly sick at the…

— M.L. Stedman

“We were in the autumnlands. Dim as it was, the forest glowed. The golden leaves flashing by blazed like sparks caught in the updraft…

— Margaret Rogerson

“The scent of trees was in the air.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Women and men in scrubs swept into the room and checked the monitors and the bags. They strode out, nodded at the quartet slumped…

— Scott Archer Jones

“It was too hot inside the hospital and the floors squeaked. There was a hand-gel dispenser outside the ward, and a big yellow sign…

— Gail Honeyman

“Every hospital smells the same, like cotton balls dipped in alcohol sprinkled with death.”

— Rebekah Crane

“I could kill you with a pinecone.”

— Abigail Roux

“The mist was almost gone. The magical shapes of the topiary had lost their charm and looked like the unkempt bushes and hedges they…

— Diane Setterfield

“After that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet…

— James Herriot