Harper-lee Quote by Harper Lee

“I was too surprised to cry. I crept from Jem’s room and shut the door softly, lest undue noise set him off again. Suddenly…

— Harper Lee

“An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him,…

— Harper Lee

Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until…

— Harper Lee

“Atticus sat looking at the floor for a long time. Finally he raised his head. “Scout,” he said, “Mr. Ewell fell on his knife.…

— Harper Lee

“How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did. They've done it before and they did it tonight and…

— Harper Lee

“Jem also told me that if I breathed a word to Atticus, if in any way I let Atticus know I knew, Jem would…

— Harper Lee

“I reckon if he'd wanted us to know it, he'da told us. If he was proud of it, he'da told us." "Maybe it just…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“Well, in the first place, you stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it- you just lit right into me.…

— Harper Lee

“H-ey, Atticus!” I thought he would have a fine surprise, but his face killed my joy. A flash of plain fear was going out…

— Harper Lee

“I don't care what you do, so long as you do something," said Atticus. "You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors." "Ain't…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“Early in To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem refuses to come down from the tree house and eat breakfast because his father won't play football…

— Rafe Esquith

“She was not on the porch. In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds…

— Harper Lee