George quotes

• Friendship


  "Because I got you an' -“ “An’ I got you. We got each other”
• I ain't gonna let ‘em hurt Lennie
• It’d be on our own an’ nobody could can us. If we don’t like a guy we can say ‘Get the hell out’
• I ain’t got no people... you get used to goin around with a guy
• I’ll give him the work tickets… you jus stand there and don’t say nothin
• Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world
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  Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why
• you an’ me. Everybody gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble
• No place for rabbits now , but I could easily build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits
• we’d belong there… we’d have our own place where we belonged
• George raised the gun and his hand shook and his hand dropped to the ground again
• Resentful

  you do bad things and I got to get you out
• An you ain’t gonna do no bad things like you did in weed neither
• God a’mighty if I was alone I could live so easy
• Jus wanted to feel that girls dress- jus wanted to pet it like it was a mouse
• He said woodenly,” if I was alone I could live so easy” his voice was monotonous, had no emphasis,”I could get a job an have no mess”
• Features

  the first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features

  small, strong hands, slender arms and a thin and bony nose
• Bad person

  I have never seen no piece of jailbait worse than her. You leave her be
• Foreshadowing


  Hide till I come you, don’t let nobody see you. hide in the brush by the river. Say it over
• Jesus what a tramp“. “ so that’s what Curley picks for a wife
• "Gosh she was purty” “ don’t even take a look at that bitch”
• The hand shook violently but his face set and his hand steadied