| “I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy . . .” pg 7 | George |
| “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future … An’ why? Because . . . because i got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why” pg 13-14 | George and Lennie |
| ” . . . but he sure can take orders” pg 39 | Slim |
| “Carl’s right, Candy. That dog ain’t no good to himself. I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple” pg 45 | Slim |
| “How long’s it gonna be till we get that little place an’ live off that fatta the lan’ an’ rabbits?” pg 56 | Lennie |
| “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred and fifty bucks I’d put in” pg 59 | Candy |
| “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t of ought to let no stranger shoot my dog” pg 61 | Candy |
| “I think you got your han’ caught in a machine. If you don’t tell . . . we ain’t going to” pg 64 | Slim |
| “They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black” pg 68 | Crooks |
| “A guy needs somebody-to be near him.” He whined, “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody” pg 72 | Crooks |
| “Any of you boys seen Curley?” pg 76 | Curley’s wife |
| “Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice” pg 85 | Lennie |
| “Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely” pg 86 | Curley’s wife |
| “Coulda been in the movies an’ had nice clothes – all them nice clothes like they wear” pg 89 | Curley’s wife |
| “No, Lennie. I ain’t mad. I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know” pg 106 | George |
Of Mice and Men – important quotes
April 25, 2020