Scout Finch

"Jem seemed to have contracted a vague, disconsolate illness."

"That jury didn't come in here with right intentions."

"I wanted to see what it was like, I wanted to see what real courage was."

"That made me think about it. Though certainly not very much."

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."

"Atticus was right. One time he said you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"The simple hell-manners of people in this county made me want to bite my tongue off."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"I thought Atticus would be a good one now, but when I looked at him, he was sitting with his head back against the wall."

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it."

"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some of us."

"I wanted to see what an unfair trial looked like."

"Our father didn't do anything. He worked in an office, not in a drugstore."

"Atticus was right. He said the simple hell-manner of people who don't mind their own business."

"I was not so sure, but Atticus seemed confident that real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin."

"Whatever you do to us, we'll still come back because this is home."

"I think maybe Jem is trying too hard to grow up."

"Atticus and the law went back a long way together."

"We're the same folks, just wearing different skins."

"Tom Robinson's testimony had affected me profoundly."

"People are not, just as bad as Jem was saying."

"I felt then, as I do now, that the events of the summer had affected Jem profoundly."

"I wanted to grow up and be a lady, but I wasn't sure why."

"We were always tired by the end of the summer."

"The summer I was afraid, afraid of being laughed at."

"Let's go home, Jem; it's almost dark."

"I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time."

"Atticus said to Jem one day, 'I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds.'"

"She was not a woman, but a narrow column of flame."