Daylight...In my mind, the night faded. It was daytime and the neighborhood was busy. Miss Stephenie Crawford crossed the street to tell the latest to Miss Rachel. Miss Maudie bent over the azaleas. I...
She went to him. Atticus, she said. I’m— You may be sorry, but I’m proud of you. She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. What? I said I’m proud of you. I don’t understand you. I don’t underst...
Kill a Mockingbird’s small-town setting is what stuck with NBC’s Tom Brokaw, who grew up in small towns throughout South Dakota and knew not just the pressures that [Atticus] was under, but the magnif...
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill.Jem and I stopped in our tracks.Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna jo...
I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep.
But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing.
Why doesn’t their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Ch...
Don’t push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county’d be easier to live with.
Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to th...
I guess it’s like an airplane: they’re the drag and we’re the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we’re nose-heavy, too much of them and we’re tail-heavy—it’s a matter of balanc...
Do you defend niggers, Atticus? I asked him that evening.Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.'s what everybody at school says.From now on it'll be everybody less one--Well if you do...