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I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans. - [Montana] If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. - [Liking] Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. - Cannery Row [Books (First Lines)] The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay. - East of Eden [Books (First Lines)] A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. - Of Mice and Men [Books (First Lines)] When the war came to Monterey and to Cannery Row everybody fought it more or less, in one way or another. - Sweet Thursday [Books (First Lines)] To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. - The Grapes of Wrath [Books (First Lines)] By ten-forty-five it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished. - The Moon Is Down [Books (First Lines)] Kino awakened in the near dark. The stars still shone and the day had drawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky to the east. The roosters had been crowing for some time, and the early pigs were already beginnning their ceaseless turning of twigs and bits of wood to see whether anything to eat had been overlooked. - The Pearl [Books (First Lines)] Forty-two miles below San Ysidro, on a great north-south highway in California, there is a crossroad which for eighty-odd years has been called Rebel Corners. - The Wayward Bus [Books (First Lines)] When the fair cold morning of April stirred Mary Hawley awake, she turned over to her husband and saw him, little fingers pulling a frog mouth at her. - The Winter of Our Discontent [Books (First Lines)] When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. - Travels with Charley [Books (First Lines)]
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