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“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.” George to Lennie

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.” George to Lennie. “God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.” George to Lennie. “Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.”

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“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.” George to Lennie

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  1. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.” George to Lennie

  2. “God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.” George to Lennie

  3. “Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.” The Boss, to George and Lennie.

  4. “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. … I tell ya a guy gets lonely an’ he gets sick.” Crooks about a black man’s loneliness.

  5. “We got somebody to talk to that gives damn about us.” George to Lennie

  6. “A guy sets lone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or staff like that.” Crooks to Lennie

  7. “A colored man got to have some rights even if he don’t like ‘em.” Crooks on human rights.

  8. “every damn one of ‘em’s for a little piece of land in his head.” Crooks to Lennie

  9. “If I catch any one man, and he’s alone, I get along fine with him. But you just let two of the guys together an’ you won’t talk.” Curley’s wife on men.

  10. “Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes.” Slim on George’s killing of Lennie and the dream.

  11. “It jus’ seems kinda funny a cuckoo like him and a smart little guy like you travellin’ together.” About George and Lennie travelling together.

  12. “You’re yella as a frog belly. … You come for me an’ I’ll kick your goddamn head off.” Carlson to Curley.

  13. “God damn you … Why do you have to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice.” Lennie after killing the puppy.

  14. “You god-damn tramp. … Ever’body knowed you’d mess things up. You wasn’t no good. You ain’t no good now, you lousy tart.” Candy realising Curley’s wife’s death, is the death of the dream.

  15. “You crazy bastard. You ain’t fit to lick the boots of no rabbit.” The “gigantic rabbit” talking to Lennie in chapter 6.

  16. “OK, Machine. I’ll talk to you later. I like machines.” Curley’s wife talking to Lennie after she realises it was him who beat up Curley.

  17. “Sure I got a husban’. … Swell guy, ain’t he?” “I’m glad you bust Curley up … I’d like to bust him myself.” Curley’s wife bitter about her marriage.

  18. “Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.” Crooks to Lennie

  19. A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and … it came to the legs of a motionless heron … A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically. Chapter 6 (circle from the opening of the novel)

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