To Kill a Mockingbird

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

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

"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."

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

"I wanted to grow up and marry Charlie Harris, but I was eight and didn't know how."

"Jem and I naturally assumed that instructions came in one word and one word only: No."

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

"Atticus had promised me he would wear me out, but he hadn't raised his hand to either of us ever in his life."

"I'm trying to be helpful, I'm trying to tell you something."

"He had discovered during his first year in school that I knew he was watching, and had learned to leave me alone."

"We lived on the main residential street of Maycomb. Our house was really an L-shaped affair."

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

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

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

"You must never work at belonging to the world, Scout. It'll have little use for you either way."

"We are trying not to educate her into a style of living that might be her undoing."

"A mob's nothing more than a lot of folks."

"You don't have to be sorry. He called you ugly names, but he is still trash."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for."

"Have you ever thought about it, Atticus? That man may never go out of that yard. That man's been in that yard forty-three years or more."

"They don't like us. We're makin' 'em look bad, don't we, Cal? They got us beat from the start."

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

"You're not a total embarrassment to the family."