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“My mother, sitting at the kitchen table, the steam rising from her cup entwining with the smoke curling from her cigarette resting on an…

— Patti Smith

“...doing the smoker's comedy act: he hunted automatically for an ashtray, didn't find one, tipped his ashes into the palm of his hand,...”

— Patricia Nell Warren

“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

“Ash was the Master of Smoke.”

— Tracey West

“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

“There is a sort of magic in striking a match and lighting a cigarette, the way the match flares and the tobacco singes, the…

— Chloe Thurlow

“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

“Harry lit up, drew the smoke deep into his lungs and tried to imagine the blood vessels in the wall of the lung greedily…

— Jo Nesbø

“The cigarette hung unlit from his lips. Was he doomed to roam forever in his ghost state, always wanting to light that cigarette? A…

— Deanna Chase

“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

“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

“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