"I ain't gonna let no one hurt Lennie"Courage
"He ain't mean. He's jes' like a kid"Kindness
"I could go away. I could go off in the hills there. Some place I'd find a cave"Freedom
"An' have our own little house and a couple acres"Dreams
"You do bad things and I go an' get in trouble"Wisdom
"Maybe I can find my own place"Hope
"Lennie, for God's sake don't tell nobody"
"I ain't mad at you. I never been mad at you"Friendship
"I seen hundreds of guys"Philosophy
"I gotta think about us"
"Lennie, you didn't do bad on purpose did ya"
"I'm gonna do it like Candy should of done it"Courage
"Everything's gonna be all right"Hope
"We gonna have our own place"Dreams
"I ain't gonna ask you no more questions"Patience
"When they find out what I done, they gonna hunt me"Fear
"Lennie shouldn't go to no institutions. He belongs with me"
"What the hell is Lennie doin'"
"We was gonna have our little house"Dreams
"It jus' ain't no good any more"
"I got you to look after me, an' you got me to look after you"Friendship
"I ain't mad. I ain't never been mad"Peace
"We're gonna have a little house an' a couple of acres an' a cow an' some pigs..."Dreams
"Lennie broke it...he always does..."
"You can't keep a dead mouse in your pocket"Wisdom
"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"Friendship
"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"Solitude
"If you do bad things, I'll leave you alone and let a mean person hurt you"
"I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we'd never do her"Hope
"Lennie, for God's sake don't drink so much"