I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable. I stayed miserable for two days.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“in favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“...summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longing we sometimes… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“You just try to kill their souls instead of their bodies. You just try to tell ’em, ‘Look, be good. Behave yourselves.… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I'm concerned, that part is Greg's for life. I've had… — 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
This was life in the '30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom’s jury,… — 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 Image
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
