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“I stilled. I was sure I'd imagined that all too familiar voice, but there he was. His bright blue eyes saying far more than his words ever could. His iris' held pain and anger and my shame increased tenfold. How foolish I was to think what I'd done would matter to him, or how his reaction would mean so much to me.”

Romance Regret Shame Foolish Lennie Nathaniel Bright Blue Eyes

Book:Inherited

Source: Inherited

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

World Guy Mice Lennie

Book:The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“[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”

“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.”

Thinking Feels Wanted Used Teaching Ten My Sister Shells Feel Better Turtles Make Me Feel Better Lennie

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

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

Right Now Lennie

Book:Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“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'.”

Littles Said Lying Lennie

Book:Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“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”

Thinking Knows Important Seems Form Purpose Lost Flower Sight Originals Brown Bags Grandmother Lunch Buttons My Grandmother Handful Nourishment Petals Lennie

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“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.”

Years Said Bigs Feet Sky Years Ago Garden Misconception Lennie

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.”

Author:Mose Allison