Scout Finch

"The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first."

"I maintain that the Ewells startled me, no more."

"Atticus's courtroom manner had changed considerably."

"The jury compared notes in the dark."

"Inside that house waiting was my mother."

"We were paying the highest tribute we knew how."

"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."

"Maybe he didn't have time. Maybe he was tired."

"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some folks that we lived as we did, but of pride to others."

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

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

"I wanted to know why those people were here in the first place."

"Maybe we need a police force."

"She was brave. She had to be brave."

"Sometimes it's better to turn a blind eye and deaf ear."

"He's not an unhappy man, though he's never been anything but courteous and respectful to me."

"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 stand in his shoes and walk around in them."

"You see, we're the same folks as the Cunninghams, except the Cunninghams never took anything they couldn't pay back."

"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings."

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

"There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with."

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

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

"The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first."

"Jem was a scourge sometimes, and I admitted it, but when he was dispirited I could not stand it."

"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."

"The fact that Jem was largely self-taught gave him an advantage over me."

"I wanted to know why when somebody went to church they had to be careful about how they treated people in everyday life."

"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."