Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away Quotes

“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the stars if you can believe that) what a great river it was. "I come roaring from the earth and return roaring to the earth. I am the master of my waters. I am the mother and father of myself. I don't need a single drop of rain. Look at my smooth strong white muscles. I am my own future!”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away

“He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away

“I know that we are surrounded by so much blossoming horror in the world that three puppies wandering off isn't very much, but I worry about it and see this simple event as the possible telescope for a larger agony.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away

“You sons-of-bitches all have bicycles!" he said, "I'll have a bicycle someday!”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away

“I hated to interrupt her. I know how much a dream can be worth, but, alas... "Hello.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away

“If you can’t give them the maximum of yourself, then it’s best to wait. There are too many children in the world and not enough love.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“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

“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

“I have an understanding of people and I love what I am doing.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“Though the library is “closed” I don’t have to go home because this is my home and has been for years, and besides, I have to be here all the time.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“She was a perfect freeway Mona Lisa.”
― Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away