Agatha

“Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

“Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.”
― Emmeline Pankhurst, Freedom or death

“But you never know when the magic will descend on you. You never know when the grooves will open up. And once the magic descends you don’t want to change even the smallest detail. You don’t know what concordance of factors and variables yields that calibrated can’t-miss feeling, and you don’t want to soil the magic by trying to figure it out, but you don’t want to change your grip, your stick, your side of the court, your angle of incidence to the sun. Your heart’s in your throat every time you change sides of the court.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“But you can be too intelligent, I said. Sometimes it's not an asset it's a curse.”
― William Boyd, Any Human Heart