Sarah Totten

“There's a stench in the air, which from this distance underground, might be the smell of either death or of spring - I hope of spring. But don't let me trick you, there is a death in the smell of spring and in the smell of thee as in the smell of me. And if nothing more, invisibility has taught my nose to classify the stenches of death.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisble Man

“The man who holds the knife is not always the real murderer.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man

“I felt a surge of grief, I, who had never known men, as I stood in front of this man who had wanted to overcome fear and despair to enter eternity upright and furious.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world, in this world devoid of humanity.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer