To Kill a Mockingbird

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

"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."

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

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

"You are a very peculiar child, Scout."

"I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the American judicial system."

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

"The fact, as I understand it, the fact that may be the least understood fact of all."

"She was odd, but nice."

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

"Someday, maybe, it will be of some avail."

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

"If this thing hadn't happened I would never have gone in the way I have gone."

"Atticus, he's real nice."

"I don't care so much about me, anymore."

"I'm going to have a son."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."

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

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

"Some Negroes lie, some are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted with anything—but this is true of the people in this town too."

"We're the same folks, Finch. We just see it different."

"She was good, but she was human."

"People are not, in the end, always ugly; you have to believe they can be better than they are."

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy."

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"The main one is, if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town."

"I'm simply defending a Negro man."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, that white man is trash."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."