To Kill a Mockingbird

"The simple hell-manners of people in this county made me want to bite my tongue off."

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

"I'm not scared."

"Bad language is a stage all children go through and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it."

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

"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."

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

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."

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

"Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him."

"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."

"That made me think about it. Though certainly not very much."

"I wanted to see what it was like, I wanted to see what real courage was."

"I'm simply defending niggers, as you say."

"That jury didn't come in here with right intentions."

"But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom."

"We're making a much bigger thing out of this than we should."

"Jem seemed to have contracted a vague, disconsolate illness."

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

"The summer that had begun so long ago had ended, and another had come and gone."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read."

"You've got to make allowances for the simple hell-fire of everyday living."

"Atticus said that the simple hell-fire of everyday living was sufficient."

"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."

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."

"The things that happen to people we know are real."

"Before Jem was born, my father was the same."