To Kill a Mockingbird

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."

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

"The secret's in not losing your temper."

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

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

"There must be something else that burns up inside of them."

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

"I ain't very good at anything."

"Most people are nice, Scout, when you finally see them."

"The outside world was just a pale shadow of the world I lived in."

"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."

"Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence."

"I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that."

"There's nothing more distracting than a man who's in love."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."

"The simple hell of it is, we've got to make the best of things."

"I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through this without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb's usual disease."

"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."

"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."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try to win."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."

"I'm not sure what he is, but I just know he's different"

"The person you love most is always the one that hurts you the most"

"Cheating a colored man is ten times worse than cheating a white man"

"This time we ain't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our own"

"He had to take the stand and testify, and he did the best he could"