“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”

“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”

“She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.”

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

“I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.”

“Scent:
When she wore the hat, even many years later, she could always smell her mother's perfume & it was hard to remember she was supposed to be alone.”

“In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it — but men were different. A man like B — like Alfie, too — never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.”

“Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a smallthat smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving.”

“She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.”

“When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.”