“there in the night their bed had the towelly smell of marriage.”

“The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.”

“Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage?Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.”

“...the arms of his swim team sweatshirt still wrapped around the pillow on the bed - Em had said it smelled of him.”

“I bend over to smell the bed… to smell his smell in the bed, it’s kind of spicy and nice, so I place my knee on the bed and get in closer to smell it properly.“What are you doing?” A very male voice asks from behind me. Imogen, caught out; Falling in Silence”

“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.”