Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. — 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
“I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all… — 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
Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born… — 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 didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and… — 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
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
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra.… — 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
I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in… — 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
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