Verna Barbosa

“I thought I smelled an early hint of the mysterious bittersweet gas that fills Pittsburgh in the summertime, a smell at once industrial and aboriginal, river water and sulfur dioxide, burning tires and the coat of a fox.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”
― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out