02UndatedSomething is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.Harper Lee / quote ↗
03UndatedHe was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.Harper Lee / quote ↗
04UndatedIn Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.Harper Lee / quote ↗
06UndatedFirst of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.Harper Lee / quote ↗
07UndatedPeople have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.Harper Lee / quote ↗
09UndatedIf we followed our feelings all the time we´d be like cats chasin´ their tails.Harper Lee / quote ↗
10UndatedAgain, 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 / quote ↗
11UndatedUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.Harper Lee / quote ↗
13UndatedShe knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.Harper Lee / quote ↗
14Undated...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.Harper Lee / quote ↗
15UndatedAlexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it.Harper Lee / quote ↗
16UndatedHoney, the sun rises and sets with that Bill of hers. Everything he says is Gospel. She loves her man.""Is that what loving your man is?""Has a lot to do with it."Jean Louise said, "You mean losing your own identity, don't you?""In a way, yes," said Henry. "Then I doubt if I shall ever marry.Harper Lee / quote ↗
17UndatedWe’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.Harper Lee / quote ↗
18UndatedI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus FinchHarper Lee / quote ↗
19UndatedThought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?Harper Lee / quote ↗
20UndatedWhen a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasionquicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No, you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re notattracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.Harper Lee / quote ↗
21UndatedPeople generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.Harper Lee / quote ↗
22UndatedHe might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older. A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr Cunnignham was part of a mob last night, but he ws still a man.Every mob in every little Souhern town is always made up of people you know - doesn't say much for them, does it?''I'll say ot, ' said Jem.'So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it?' said Atticus. 'That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.Harper Lee / quote ↗
23UndatedA boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting a strange little drama of their own invention. It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Dubose's. . . . Fall, and his children trotted to and fro around the corner, the day's woes and triumphs on their faces. They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house. Winter, and a man walked into the street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog. Summer, and he watched his children's heart break. Autumn again, and Boo's children needed him. 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 standing on the Radley porch was enough.Harper Lee / quote ↗
24UndatedThere was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing.'Your stomach's growling,' I said.'I know it,' he said.Harper Lee / quote ↗
