"Flowers for Algernon" Quotes
An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experimental surgery that dramatically increases his intelligence, but his newfound intelligence comes with unexpected consequences.
fiction | 216 pages | Published in 1959
Quotes
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
I don’t want to feel it. I don’t want to feel anything. It seems safer that way.
P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.
I told him I dint want to race him anymore. I told him I was sorry. But he said that was the wrong way to think.
I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.
If you have no friend, you are a friendless person. That’s what a friend of mine said. That’s because I have no friends yet.
I aint never had a likin for a girl before. How come I feel this way about her?
I’m not very brave about facing up to things, and I don’t even know for sure if I want to be smart again.
I’m ashamed of you, Charlie, acting so ashamed of your friends.





