Jason Blanco

“He looked very carefully at her fingers as if he had never seen fingers before. He was enchanted by them and thought that they were beautiful. He never wanted to let go. He wanted to hold her hand forever.”
― Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel

“WHEN I first met Vida she had been born inside the wrong body and was barely able to look at people, wanting to crawl off and hide from the thing that she was contained within.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“He sometimes wondered why people talked at all. If people didn’t talk then he wouldn’t be nervous trying to figure out things to answer them with.”
― Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel

“I spend all my time hiding from it. Can you imagine spending your whole life hiding from your own body as if it were a monster in a Grade B movie, but still every day having to use it to eat, sleep and get from one place to another?”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away