Lennie Quotes

• Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

  John Steinbeck

  Guy, World, Mice

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.209, Penguin

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• And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.

  Mose Allison

  Stills

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• Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

  John Steinbeck

  Right Now

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.50, Hamilton Books

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• But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.

  Jandy Nelson

  Teaching, Feel Better, Thinking

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.97, Penguin

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• [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Mom, Football

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• Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

  John Steinbeck

  Lying, Littles, Said

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Of Mice and Men”, p.55, Penguin

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• My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe

  Jandy Nelson

  Flower, Grandmother, Thinking

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.36, Penguin

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• Years ago, I was crashed in gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

  Jandy Nelson

  Garden, Years, Sky

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.80, Penguin

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