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They're people, aren't they? We were quite willing to import them when they made money for us.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection

I do my best to love everyday

When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

Isn't it about time you got over that? Bury your dead, Jean Louise.

Amazing grace how sweet thuh sound That saved a wretch like me; I once was lost but now I'm found, Was blind, but now I see. A-men." Jem

Sometimes, it's never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name.

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just

You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep...

When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say.

No, I mean I can smell somebody an' tell if they're gonna die. An old lady taught me how. Jean
Louise
Finch, you are going to die in three days.

Jean Louise, did you come down on the train Like That?

I don't see why I have to when he doesn't.
Then listen.

You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too. You can teach me like Grandaddy taught you 'n' Uncle Jack." "No

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

She had never told us on, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend.

There was no finer young man, said the people of Maycomb, than Henry Clinton. Jean Louise agreed.

You who called me Scout are dead and in your grave.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan ... The Ku Klux's gone ... It'll never come back.

It was a happy cemetery. The

Atticus, he was real nice."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind.

You deny them hope ... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.

Oh dear me, yes. The novel must tell a story.

God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

yard where the trees were, where the carhouse was, and

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin in definition.

In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama

The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom - Atticus

We Finches don't marry the children of rednecked white trash.

... some people have more opportunity because they're born with it ...

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Her world was at its best when her time came to leave it.

I wonder what would happen if the South had a 'Be Kind to the Niggers Week'?

Simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine, I guess.

I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man.

You may be sorry, but I'm proud of you." She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. "What?" "I said I'm proud of you." "I

Hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

the Dew-Drop Inn & Fishing Camp;

Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Shoulder up, I reeled around to face Boo Radley and his bloody fangs; instead, I saw Dill ringing the bell with all his might in Atticus's face.

Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy.

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Jem was a born hero.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

When we reached the auditorium, the whole town was there except Atticus and the ladies worn out from decorating, and the usual outcasts and shut-ins.

Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.

Aunty said no, that's where we got our small hands and feet.

It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways.

No, don't tell me, let me tell you: you had a marvelous time but you wouldn't dream of living there.

There was no point in saying you were sorry if you aren't.

I'm little but I'm old.

Jean Louise Finch always made this journey by air,

His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. "Hey, Boo," I said.

As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

She would have pondered over the meaninglessness of silent, austere beauty renewing itself with every sunrise and going ungazed at by half the world.

I do my best to love everybody

Mutual defiance made them alike.

I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are
ah
slumming.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"

Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"

Scout- "What's a whore-lady?

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

She loved everything that grew on God's earth, even weeds.

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

First thing you learn when you're in a lawin' family is that there ain't any definite answers to anything.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a
woman to do that kind of work.

A man can appear to be a part of something not-so-good on its face, but don't take it upon yourself to judge him unless you know his motives as well.

Blind, that's what I am. I never opened my eyes. I never thought to look into people's hearts, I looked only in their faces.

There are ways of doing things you dont't know about

It's alive!" she screamed. The

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Try fighting with your head for a change ...
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Nearly never kills a bird

If you did not want so much, there was plenty.

The cold water embraced hime like no woman ever could

Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty.

That Tom had a good chance of going free, or at least of having a new trial.

Atticus said, I can take anything anybody calls me so long as it's not true.

As Kipling said, that's another story...

Dear goodness, the things you learned.

I just don't like my world disturbed without some warning.

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.

Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.' Jem

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

leave the place. From the day Mr Radley took Arthur home, people said the house died. But

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

One could be a ray of sunshine in pants as well. -Scout Finch