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Said Quotes by Harper Lee
- Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine…
- I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers…
- I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
- Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really…
- Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem.…
- 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. Tellin’ the truth’s…
- Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
- When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A…
- Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough…
- I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said.…
- 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 things like that.…
- There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the…
- Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
- 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 on him and…
- We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me…
- Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the…
- Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus!…
- Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to…
- Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?
- I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that…
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