“I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.” — 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
“There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Some folks don't like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with 'em, I don't care if they don't… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“That's what I thought, too when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did. They've done it before and they did it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment. Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Jem: I’ve thought about it a lot lately and I’ve got it figured out. There’s four kinds of folks in Maycomb County.… — 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
