“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”
Larry Niven book Protector
Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)
“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”
Larry Niven book Protector
Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.”
Jodi Thomas (1950) American writer
Source: Welcome to Harmony
Ed Gorman (1941–2016) American writer
Source: Everybody's Somebody's Fool
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Better to add life to your days than days to your life.”
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) Italian neurologist
Source: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) French composer
On Richard Wagner as quoted in TIME (7 December 1953)
“Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: Every Which Way But Dead
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Welsh journalist and explorer
Source: Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909), p. 254
Crowfoot (1830–1890) Chief of the Siksika
Crowfoot's last words, 1890; reported in Clark Tibbitts, Aging in the Modern World: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction (1957), p. 222.