A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it? (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen. (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. (Harper Lee, "To Kill A Mockingbird")
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. (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing 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. (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too. (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")