Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Flowers for Algernon.
Love Quotes
Charlie doesn't know why they make such a fuss about a girl and why they always want to talk to her (he'd rather play ball or kick-the-can, or ring-levio than talk to a girl) but all the boys are i...
Identity Quotes
I askd Dr Strauss what good is it to get smart in my sleep if I want to be smart when Im awake. He said it's the same thing and I have two minds. (8.29)
Guilt and Blame Quotes
Now I know what they mean when they say "to pull a Charlie Gordon." I'm ashamed. (9.42)
Family Quotes
She comes toward him, screaming that he is a bad boy, and Charlie runs to his father for help. (10.75)
Change Quotes
I wish it would reely work alredy so I coud get smart like evrybody else. (8.24)
Memory and the Past Quotes
Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir eand every thing that happins to me from now on. (1.1)
Fear Quotes
I was skared when they came in and tolld me it was time to go for the operashun. (7.13)
Death and Mortality Quotes
I dint see my mother or father or my little sister Norma for a long long long time. Maybe their ded to. (3.4)
Manipulation Quotes
Prof Nemur skratched his head and rubbd his nose and said maybe your rite. We will use Charlie. But weve got to make him understand that a lot of things can go wrong with the experamint. (5.10)
Sex Quotes
Dr. Strauss feels that emotionally I'm still in that adolescent state where being close to a woman, or thinking of sex, sets off anxiety, panic, and hallucinations. (11.102)