"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)