Quotes from Harper Lee

He was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being." I love you. As you please. Where she would have had a spirited argument only, an exchange of ideas, a clash of hard and different points of view with a friend, with him she had tried to destroy. She had tried to tear him to pieces, to wreck him, to obliterate him. Childe Roland to the dark tower came.

real coverage is ... it's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Jem restrained me from further questions. He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any. Jem

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Ä°nsanlar bir nedenle birbirine güvenirdi; nedenini unuttum.

When she dressed, she put on her Maycomb clothes: gray slacks, a black sleeveless blouse, white socks, and loafers. Although it was four hours away, she could hear her aunt's sniff of disapproval.

But it's okay to hate Hitler?" "It is not," he said. "It's not okay to hate anybody.

Your trouble, now, you want to have your cake and eat it: you want to stop the clock, but you can't.

Bu kez farkl?, dedi Atticus. Bu kez Yankilerle savaÅŸm?yoruz, dostlar?m?zla sava??yoruz. Ama ÅŸunu unutma, iÅŸler ne kadar kötüye giderse gitsin, onlar yine de bizim dostumuz, buras? da bizim ülkemiz.

Why did you take so much trouble with me today? I know how you hate to move out of that house." "Because you're my child. You and Jem were the children I never had. You two gave me something long ago, and I'm trying to pay my debts. You two helped me a—" "How, sir?

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.

Ne zaman eve dönsem, dünyaya geri döndüÄŸüm duygusuna kap?l?yorum.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. I stayed miserable for two days.

Let's try to make him come out," said Dill. "I'd like to see what he looks like." Jem said if Dill wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door.

Jean Louise was accustomed to her uncle's brand of intellectual shorthand: it was his custom to state one or two isolated facts, and a conclusion seemingly unsupported thereby. Slowly and surely, if prodded correctly, Dr. Finch would unwind the reel of his strange lore to reveal reasoning that glittered with a private light of its own.

Didn't you know? Hasn't Atticus gotten around to telling you that? Why, I'm amazed at Zandra not . . . good heavens, I thought all of Maycomb knew that." "Knew what?" "I was in love with your mother." "My mother?

Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que la batalla esta perdida de antemano, lo intenta a pesar de todo y lucha hasta el final.

Tim Johnson was advancing at a snail's pace, but he was not playing or sniffing at foliage: he seemed dedicated to one course and motivated by an invisible force that was inching him toward us. We could see him shiver like a horse shedding flies; his jaw opened and shut; he was alist, but he was being pulled gradually toward us.

The crowd was visibly impressed with Jean Louise. Girls she saw every day asked her where she got her dress, as if they didn't all get them there: "Ginsberg's. Calpurnia took it up," she said. Several of the younger boys with whom she had been on eye-gouging terms only a few years ago made self-conscious conversation with her.

Chcia?em, ?eby? co? w niej dostrzeg?. ?eby? dostrzeg?, czym jest prawdziwa odwaga, i ?eby nigdy nie przysz?o ci do g?owy, ?e odwa?ny jest cz?owiek z pistoletem w r?ku. Odwa?ny jest ten, kto wie, ?e przegra, zanim jeszcze rozpocznie walk?, lecz mimo to zaczyna i prowadzi j? do ko?ca bez wzgl?du na wszystko.

There was some skill involved in being a girl.

I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco. was all Atticus said about it. According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him...Miss Stephanie said Atticus didn't bat an eye, just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr. Ewell call him names wild horses could not bring her to repeat.

You just try to kill their souls instead of their bodies. You just try to tell 'em, 'Look, be good. Behave yourselves. If you're good and mind us, you can get a lot out of life, but if you don't mind us, we will give you nothing and take away what we've already given you.

You tell Cecil I'm about as radical as Cotton Tom Heflin.