Home Quote by Tatjana Soli

“For a split second today I could smell home. It smelled like sunset on a dirt road. I thought my heart was going to…

— Damien Echols

“I couldn't leave there  without carrying some of her sadness and loneliness with me like a cloak. There was a smell that I've come…

— Lisa Unger

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would…

— Sage Steadman

“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 stepped out to the lawn. I remember the air that night, and how it was so brisk that it could revive the dead.…

— Abraham Verghese

“This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places.”

— Larissa Lai

“The breeze carried herself to my nose. It was a scent I hadn't smelled before. It smelled like fallen leaves, or the first bud…

— Sohn Won-Pyung

“For all the things that had happened to her, all the people she had met, the miles of ocean she had covered, she could…

— Peter Carey

“I could see the writing on the wall. It wasn’t the ’90s. It wasn’t even the Pacific Northwest anymore. Something had come and swept…

— Grace Krilanovich

“In the lobby, an old woman with legs wrapped in elastic bandages mopped the floor with filthy water. She kept missing the same spot,…

— David Remnick

“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

“Letting go of the pipe in the laundry room, he could feel in his throat so many sentences from the night's reading of emails,…

— Andre Dubus III