QUOTES ABOUT FRIENDSHIP IN OF MICE AND MEN

“A guy can go nuts if he ain’t got nobody. It don’t make no difference who the guy is, long as he’s with you.” – George

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you.” – Lennie

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain’t got no family. They don’t belong no place…With us, it ain’t like that. We got a future.” – George

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” – Slim

“Ain’t many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” – Slim

“I don’t believe in no plays. I seen too many of ‘em. That’s all they ever are is a buncha guys sittin’ around on a stage.” – Candy

“We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” – George

“S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ‘cause you was black.” – Crooks

“If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.” – George

“I got you to look after me, but you got me to look after you.” – Lennie

“I ought to have shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to have let no stranger shoot my dog.” – Candy

“A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shallows. 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.” – Opening description of friendship’s fragility TEARS QUOTES SHORT

“Sure, ya see the stable buck’s a n****r.” – Whit

“It was difficult for Crooks to conceal his pleasure with anger.” – Crooks

“Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at ’em because he ain’t a big guy. You seen little guys like that, ain’t you? Always scrappy?” – Slim

“Well, I tell ya what—Curley says he’s keepin’ that hand soft for his wife.” – Slim

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.” – Lennie

“When Candy spoke they both jumped as though they had been caught doing something reprehensible” – George and Lennie’s bond

“Tell you what he can do Employee? He reads books, and he can put up a windmill.” – Candy

“I don’t think you understand. He killed a ranch foreman. Got a shotgun and shot him right in the guts” – The story of Curley’s wife and Lennie

“Tell me like you done before.” – Lennie

“You would just stand still and let ’em gobble up the whole thing?” – Crooks

“‘Cause I got you an’…an’ I got you.” – Lennie’s repeated phrase throughout the novella