“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”

“Its never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesnt hurt you.”

“Before I can live with other folks Ive got to live with myself. The one thing that doesnt abide by majority rule is a persons conscience.”

“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no b...”

“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.”

“Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”

“Some people are like popcorn: they will only succeed when under heat or pressure.”

“Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).”

“On days when it was too hot, they did not leave their room. The dazzling brilliance from outside plastered bars of light between the slats of the blinds. Not a sound in the village. Down below, on ...”

“The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.”

“Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss tha...”