01c. 1971 ADMiss Gates is a nice lady, ain't she?"Why sure," said Jem. "I liked her when I was in her room."She hates Hitler a lot . . ."What's wrong with that?"Well, she went on today about how bad it was him treating the Jews like that. Jem, it's not right to persecute anybody, is it? I mean have mean thoughts about anybody, even, is it?"Gracious no, Scout. What's eatin' you?"Well, coming out of the courthouse that night Miss Gates was--- she was going' down the steps in front of us, you musta not seen her--- she was talking with Miss Stephanie Crawford. I heard her say it's time somebody time somebody taught 'em a lesson, they were gettin' way above themelves, an' the next thing they think they can do is marry us. Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home---Harper Lee / quote ↗
02c. 1971 ADBut in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.Harper Lee / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADI was more at home in my father's world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said something stupid. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them. There was something about them, no matter how much they cussed and drank and gambled and chewed; no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them that I instinctively liked... they weren't—"Hypocrites, Mrs. Perkins, born hypocrites," Mrs. Merriweather was saying.Harper Lee / quote ↗
04c. 1971 ADYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.Harper Lee / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADI mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.Harper Lee / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADMaycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with.Harper Lee / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADSummer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.Harper Lee / quote ↗
08c. 1971 ADThe gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.Harper Lee / quote ↗
09c. 1971 ADThey've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.Harper Lee / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADScout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady?Harper Lee / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADThey had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes’ conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality.Harper Lee / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADThere’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.Harper Lee / quote ↗
13c. 1971 ADAutumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people's breath in the air. There was even something to look forward to when school started - renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. Fall was hot-supper time with everything to eat one missed in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it.Harper Lee / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADDill 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)Harper Lee / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADThat's what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. 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? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. . .it's because he want's to stay inside.Harper Lee / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADYou never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.Harper Lee / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADMary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on.H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.Harper Lee / quote ↗
18c. 1971 ADI never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.Harper Lee / quote ↗
