Quote by Terry Pratchett

“He looked around and yawned. “I haven’t been sleeping well. It’s nice in here. But after a while the lushes will fill the place…

— Raymond Chandler

“The smells arose from everything, everywhere, flowing together and remaining as a sickening, tantalizing discomfort. They flowed from the delicatessen shop with its uncovered…

— E.R. Braithwaite

“Goats and oxen, pulling carts in from the field, left their big, smelly plops all over. these got cleaned up eventually-someone came and scraped…

— Jeanne DuPrau

“There was no woodsy fragrance blowing through my room, and the snail, especially while it lived in the pot of violets, must have been…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“SHE LET US INTO THE house, which had the subtle smell of old wood and old wool—as I used to imagine Victorian homes smelled…

— Neal Stephenson

“Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night's old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising,…

— Thomas Pynchon

“In here was a smell of rotting book-bindings, dirty vinyl cushions that had been half-cooked in the hot suns of summers past, dust, mouse-turds.”

— Stephen King

You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a supplier of…

— Leslie H. Whitten Jr

“He also could feel it in his nostrils like an impalpable soot; the emanations of the millions about them, packed away at night in…

— Irvin S. Cobb

“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 don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash,…

— Brandon Sanderson