Quotations Flashcards
“The rabbits hurried noiselessly for cover.”
“The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.”
“Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes… dragging his feet a little. The way a bear drags his paws.”
“Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water.”
Lennie “drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse.”
Lennie “Slowly, like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball back to its master.”
‘“You never oughta drink water when it ain’t running, Lennie,” he said hopelessly.’
“…somebody’d shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself.”
‘Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly.’
“Now you listen and this time you got to remember so we don’t get into trouble.”
“You crazy son-of-a-bitch. You keep me in hot water all the time.”
“I could get along so easy and nice if I didn’t have you on my tail.”
‘Lennie pleaded, “Come on, George. Tell me. Please, George. Like you done before.”’
“If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave.”
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world… with us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.”
“Someday-we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs…An’ live off the fatta the lan’.”
“If you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush.”
‘a tall stoop-shouldered old man came in.’
‘out of the sleeve came a round stick-like wrist, but no hand.’
‘The old swamper’
‘drag-footed sheep dog, gray of muzzle, and with pale, blind old eyes… struggled lamely.’
‘ancient dog… got painfully to its feet.’
“An’ he give the stable buck hell, too.”
“the stable buck’s a nigger.”
“The boss gives him hell when he’s mad.”
“Strong as a bull.”
“I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy.”
“A guy on a ranch don’t never listen nor he don’t ast no questions.”
“Ain’t many guys travel around together.”
‘high-heeled boots’
