Quotes About Lennie

I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

It was Lennie Marchbanks at the door. She had met him once or twice before and rather liked him; mechanics struck her as being such easy, agreeable people. And, she noticed, as a psychotherapist, one never had a mechanic for a patient. Why was that? Were they invariably balanced people, free of the neuroses that afflicted non-mechanically-minded others?

I could take Lennie's surname, now that he was going to be my stepfather. I thought about that. And yelped. 'What's the matter, Yuk?' Alison called from the next shower cubicle. 'Grubb!' I howled. 'Lennie's last name is Grubb!

I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him.

girl rabbits in an' tells the law she been raped. The guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie. So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day.