To Kill a Mockingbird

"We're the same."

"He said it was like a pink stalk covered with bloom."

"Atticus says cheating never prospers."

"I'm simply defending a Negro man."

"That boy is your company now."

"You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family."

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

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

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway."

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

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they just sing their hearts out."

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

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

"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."

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

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

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy."

"I go along with folks until I can't anymore."

"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to walk around on this one."

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

"Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway."

"Mrs. Dubose is the bravest person I ever knew."

"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 nigger yonder took advantage of me."

"We're making a new start, Atticus and I."

"I ain't educated, but I ain't illiterate."

"It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is."

"Do you really think so? Atticus thinks I'm a coward anyway."