“O.K. Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and——Chapter 1 · George Milton · ★★★★☆→
“With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.Chapter 1 · George Milton · ★★★★☆→
“he wore high–heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man.Chapter 2 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.Chapter 3 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“S'pose I went in with you guys. Tha's three hunderd an' fifty bucks I'd put in. I ain't much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some.Chapter 3 · Candy · ★★★★☆→
“"Well, jus’ forget it," said Crooks. "I didn’ mean it. Jus’ foolin’. I wouldn’ want to go no place like that."Chapter 4 · Crooks · ★★★★☆→
“A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so.Chapter 4 · Crooks · ★★★★☆→
“It ain’t no lie. We’re gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an’ live on the fatta the lan’.Chapter 4 · Lennie Small · ★★★★☆→