To Kill a Mockingbird

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"There is one way in this world to be liked and that is not to tell people what to do."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Scout, I'm going to tell you something and I want you to understand it."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."

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

"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."

"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you."

"You see, normally, a person wouldn't dare do anything that might get them in trouble with the law unless they were desperate."

"Firstly, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks."

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