Harper Lee

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."

"Hell, I'm looking for someone to love."

"To begin with, the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations."

"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another."

"I'll be more noticing. More aware of people."

"The lack of conscience is just about the only distinguishing mark between us and the animals."

"Jem was a boy who was beginning to understand the difference between right and wrong."

"A man's life is his own."

"When you're a child, you don't know how you or I will grow up to be."

"Negroes aren't allowed certain things in some places and you are wondering why."

"I love you, sure, but nothing is constant, nothing endures."

"Life's not fair, and that's what I've been trying to tell them."

"Do the best you can with what you have."

"Walk by the school real careful and don't say 'hey' to anybody."

"Bravery is not a man with a gun in his hand. Bravery is when you know you're beaten and you go through with it anyway."

"We've kept you alive in this world for seventeen years and you haven't read a newspaper for a month?"

"The purpose of a trial is to search for the truth."

"People have a way of talking about things they've imagined."

"You can't really blame people for their feelings."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom."

"I think you should know something about your family's background."

"All kinds of folderol coming into our town and upsetting the people."

"There's nothing good out there to learn if you can't control yourselves."

"Some churches don't believe in congregational singing, you know."

"A person being conscious of his own worth doesn't go around comparing himself with others."

"The problem is that when you're young, you don't realize the value of your time."

"Nuns habit is a mortal sin to Catholics but not to Methodists."

"That's just my way of saying hello."

"What you children have accomplished is remarkable."

"Nothing in the way of the law takes precedence over decency."