Scout Finch

"Atticus always said he couldn't understand how people could live together and go on like they didn't know it."

"Somehow, I had gotten mixed up with what I wanted to do and what I had to do."

"I wanted to see Atticus's temper take over."

"Jem was the eldest and could therefore reach higher shelves."

"She was good, but she was human."

"I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco."

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

"Atticus, he's real nice."

"It's not right to take advantage of people."

"I maintain that it's nothing short of entrapment."

"She was odd, but nice."

"That was a morbid topic for a lunch table."

"How could they do this? He's innocent!"

"That's the only thing that made me think Tom was guilty."

"As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn."

"Atticus's office was on the second floor of the courthouse."

"It was a relief to see that even our father couldn't ram himself down the throat of the almighty."

"He had told us the year before that the book had no clue."

"I wanted to put my arms around him and comfort him."

"What happened to Tom's hands?"

"She was a bitter old woman."

"Maybe he'll go to heaven, then."

"The courthouse with its sagging shelves and bins held the record of many transgressions."

"I wanted to beg him to keep his head up."

"After all, if Aunty could say such things, why couldn't Dill?"

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

"It's not honourable to fight when you know you're licked before you start."

"When Jem was nearly thirteen, my father said he could do anything from then on—anything."

"I thought Atticus relished a courtroom the same way some people relished mint juleps."

"Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I first learned that this, we had assumed that he would be indulgent, understand us, forgive us, as blind people sometimes do."