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Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck · 1937

Skip the plot, everyone can find that. Readers keep the residue here: the sentence that survived after the cover closed.

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What did Of Mice and Men leave in you?

One sentence. Forget the review voice. Write the line you'd underline and whisper to a friend on the train.

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From the margins

10 lines · sorted by underlines · offline shelf

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Tell me about the rabbits, George. Ninety pages and it still owns me.
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The best-laid schemes of mice and men go wrong. Steinbeck tested it and reported back.
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Carried byElias22 MAR 2026
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Lennie didn't understand his own strength. Love without calibration is dangerous.
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Carried byGrace24 APR 2026
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Crooks had books and rights he wasn't allowed to use. The loneliest bunk in the barn.
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Carried byKofi25 MAY 2026
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Curley's wife had no name and a whole wasted Saturday matinee dream.
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Carried byRosa27 JUN 2026
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Guys like us got nothing but each other. That's wealth, said during a depression.
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Carried byDiego30 JUL 2026
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Candy's dog and the shot in the barn, the book's cruelest foreshadowing.
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Carried byTheo31 AUG 2026
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George playing solitaire. You can be someone's whole world and still play alone.
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Carried byIlan01 OCT 2026
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The farm plan was real. Hope just needed one listener to become architecture.
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Carried byHana11 OCT 2026
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Carried out of it: protect the gentle. The world doesn't grade on intent.
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Carried byGrace23 OCT 2026