Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown… There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“When it was time to play Boo's big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from the sewingmachine drawer… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“No jury in this part of the world's going to say, "We think you're guilty, but not very," on a charge like that. It… — Harper Lee Copy Share
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share
“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… — Harper Lee Copy Share
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’… — Harper Lee Copy Share
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it… — Harper Lee Copy Share
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share
I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not… — Harper Lee Copy Share
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. — Harper Lee Copy Share
