Quote by Stephen King

“His youth had been so long ago that he could remember nothing of it but he presumed, erroneously, that he had tasted the purple…

— Mervyn Peake

“He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees,…

— Elizabeth Enright

“Zane’s answer was a toss of his hair, which lashed my ear. His hair smelled like grapefruit. I used to eat grapefruit for breakfast…

— Megan Erickson

“The sweet, lovely voices of the children were like honey, like grape wine, intoxicating him, entrancing him, so he couldn’t tell heaven from earth.”

— Lin Zhe

“You will find that sometimes people suck your light out of you, turning you from a plump grape into a shriveled up raisin.”

— Lee Vickers

“When he walked outside again, the sky was shining like a nickel and the air was filled with the smell of sugared nuts.”

— Michael Chabon

“Through the screen, he could smell the evening as though it were a living presence, the purple and yellow flowers in his yard and…

— James Lee Burke

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For he reached the conclusion that everything he had ever seen, or had ever done, or had ever dreamed of doing would in the…

— Chester Himes

“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been…

— Walter Tevis

“You stare at anything long enough and suddenly it looks monstrous.” She had in fact turned away from him to stare at the bowl…

— Anne Rice