Quotes from Harper Lee

I was crude, but I didn't cuss her." When Jean Louise and her brother were children, Atticus had occasionally drawn them a sharp distinction between mere scatology and blasphemy. The one he could abide; he hated dragging God into it.

Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist—" "That's what you are, ain't it?" "My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a Baptist.

Where she would have had a spirited argument only, and exchange of ideas, a clash of hard and different points of view with a friend, with him she had tried to obliterate him.

She was afflicted with a restlessness of spirit he could not guess at, but he knew she was the one for him.

Henry never attempted to pester her when she was thus. His attitude was Asquithian, and he knew she appreciated him for his patience. She did not know he was learning that virtue from her father. "Relax, son," Atticus had told him in one of his rare comments on her. "Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.

Skyt så mange skjærer dere vil, men husk at det er en stor synd å drepe en sangfugl.

A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

This would not do, I mused, as the class proceeded with its sums. One maniac and millions of German folks. Looked to me like they'd shut Hitler in a pen instead of letting him shut them up. There was something else wrong

We wondered when your conscience and his would part company.

but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit.

When you live in New York you often have the feeling that New York's not the world. I mean this. Every time I come home I feel like I'm coming back to the world. And when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world. It's silly.

It's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are.

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?

She sat there in front of me and she didn't see me, she saw white folks.

The time your friends need you is when they're wrong... They don't need you when they're right.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.

Every nerve in her body shrieked, then died. She was numb.

Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?

I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water.

That her son had developed all the latent characteristics of a three-dollar bill escaped her notice—all she knew was that she was glad he lived in Birmingham because he was oppressively devoted to her, which meant that she felt obliged to make an effort to reciprocate, which she could not with any spontaneity do.

I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes - baby, 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 doesn't hurt you. - Atticus Finch

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

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

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