1. Who Said It?

2. “Jus’ a dead mouse, George. I didn’ kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead!”

3. Lennie

4. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the word. They got no family. They don’t belong no place”

5. George

6. “Never did seem right to me. S’pose Curley jumps a big guy an’ licks him. Ever’body says what a game guy Curley is. S’pose he does the same thing and gets licked. They ever’body says the big guy outta pick on somebody his own size…never did seem right to me”

7. Candy

8. “ Carl’s right, Candy. That dog ain’t no good to himself. I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple”

9. Slim

10. “Look, Candy. This ol’ dog just suffers hisself all the time. If you was to take him out and shoot him in the back of the head…why, he’d never know what hit him”

11. Carlson

12. “Suppose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks I’d put in. I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some”

13. Candy

14. “Don’t tell nobody about it. Jus’ us three an’ nobody else. They li’ble to can us so we can’t make no stake. Jus’ go on like we was gonna buck barley the rest of our lives”

15. George

16. “Let the big guy talk…By Christ, he’s gotta talk when he’s spoke to. What the hell are you getting’ into it for?”

17. Curley

18. “Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it”

19. Lennie

20. “Sometimes Curley’s in here…Nobody can’t blae a person for lookin’”

21. Curley’s Wife

22. “Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella”

23. Slim

24. “You don’t need to be scairt no more. You done jus’ what I tol’ you to”

25. George

26. “No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show ya who’s yella”

27. Curley

28. “She’s gonna make a mess. They’s gonna be a real bad mess about her. She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger”

29. George

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

31. Candy

32. “I think you got your han’ caught in a machine. If you don’t tell nobody what happened, we ain’t going to”

33. Slim