Lennie Quotes

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

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  John Steinbeck

  Lennie   Right Now  

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

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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

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  Jandy Nelson

  Girl   Mom   Football  

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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

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  Jandy Nelson

  Flower   Grandmother   Thinking  

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

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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.

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  Jandy Nelson

  Teaching   Feel Better   Thinking  

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

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  Jandy Nelson

  Garden   Years   Sky  

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

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

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  John Steinbeck

  Guy   World   Lennie  

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

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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'.

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  John Steinbeck

  Lying   Littles   Lennie  

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

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

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  Mose Allison

  Lennie   Stills  

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