How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I get a good look at him. I've forgotten quite how luminous he is, like another species of human that doesn't have blood but light running through their veins. (9.32)
Even before Lennie and Joe get together, Lennie has what seems to be something way stronger than a crush. She thinks of Joe as another species, someone who is completely foreign to her, but beautiful, in a primal earthly sort of way. When you read a line like this, you can probably make the educated guess that the characters will have some sort of romance.
Quote #2
I put aside for a moment the fact that I've turned into a total strumpet-harlot-trollop-wench-jezebel-tart-harridan-chippy-nymphet because I've just realized something incredible. This is it—what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about—it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment with Joe as our mouths refuse to part. (16.24)
Amazing use of vocab words, but that's beside the point. What's important about this quote is that Lennie is realizing the universality of what she's feeling. Her love connects her to heroines she's read about, like Cathy in Wuthering Heights, even though she's never thought of herself as heroine material before.
Quote #3
This morning, for the first time, Bailey wasn't my first thought on waking and it had made me feel guilty. But the guilt didn't have much of a chance against the dawning realization that I was falling in love. (19.8)
Lennie's guilt has been on almost every page, driving her for so much of the book that it's a relief to see something winning out over it. Love is even stronger than Lennie's seemingly insurmountable guilt.