I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations fro...
It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age...
Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.
You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.
I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming.
In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
Dill?Mm?Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me.Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to
I wanted you to see something about her - I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before yo...
Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.
I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.
The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living...
He jerked his head at Dill: 'Things haven't caught up with that one's instinct yet. Let him get a little older and he won't get sick and cry. Maybe things'll strike him as being- not quite right, say,...
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.
Atticus, you must be wrong. How's that? Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . . They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opin...
Nothin’s real scary except in books.
You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.
No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, J...
Good grief, baby, people don’t agree with the Klan, but they certainly don’t try to prevent them from puttin’ on sheets and making fools of themselves in public.
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