OMAM

• "He was a jerkin skinner, the prince of the ranch" 


  Slim
• "Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely."


  Curley's Wife - Loneliness
• "his authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love"


  Slim
• "we could live offa the fatta the lan"


  Lennie - Dreams
• "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny."


  Curley's wife, Crooks - Racism, power
• "And I get to tend the rabbits" ... Lennie giggled with happiness


  Lennie - Dreams
• "a rat-trap if I ever seen one" (George to Lennie)


  Curley's wife - Sexism, prejudice
• "we'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. and when it rans in the winter, ... we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on the roof"


  Lennie - Dreams
• "He says he was gonna put me in the movies... soon he's got back to Hollywood, he was gonna write to me about it"


  Curley's wife - Dreams
• "I seen 'em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be." (George to Lennie)


  Curley's wife - Sexism, prejudice
• "no Lennie. I ain't mad. I ain't ever been mad, an' I ain't now"


  Lennie, George - friendship
• "You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley."


  Curley's wife - Loneliness
• "you do bad things and I got to get you out"


  Lennie, George - friendship
• "guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"


  Lennie, George - Loneliness
• "She had full rouged lips." "red mules with little bouquets of red ostrich feathers"


  Curley's wife
• "a guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody"


  Crooks - Loneliness
• " I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup."


  Candy - friendship, loneliness
• "you got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me"


  Crooks - racism, power
• " I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog."


  Candy - friendship
• "he moved into the room, and he moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen" 


  Slim
• "you an' me can get that little place, can't we, George"


  Candy - loneliness, friendship
• "When they can me here I wish't somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs."

  Candy
• "because I got you to look after me, an' you got me to look after you" (Lennie to George)


  Lennie, George - Friendship, Loneliness
• "Old swamper"


  Candy