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| "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him." | Jem |
| "First of all, he said, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you will get a long better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. " | Atticus |
| "Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the streets." | Miss Maudie |
| "Like somebody was readin my mind... like somebody could tell what I was gonna do. Can't anybody tell what i'm gonna do lest they know me. Can they, Scout?" | Jem |
| "I scurried to my room and went to bed. Uncle Jack was a prince of a fellow not to let me down. But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word said. " | Scout |
| "Naw Scout, it's something you wouldn't understand. Atticus is real old, but I wouldn't care if he couldn't do anything-I wouldn't care if he couldn't do a blessed thing "..."Atticus is a gentleman, just like me." | Jem |
| "So it took an eight year old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it? Atticus said. "That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human... you children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough." | Atticus |
| "They don't belong anywhere. Colored folks won't have 'em because they're half white; white folks won't have 'em 'cause they're colored, so they're just in-betweens, don't belong anywhere....." | Jem |
| "...havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you." | Jem |
| "Folks in this town think they're doing right, I mean. Now far be it from me to say who, but some of them in this town thought they were doing the right thing a while back, but all they did was stir them up. That's all they did. Might've looked like the right thing to do at the time, I'm not sure I don't know, I'm not read in that field, but sulky...dissatisfied... I tell you if my Sophy'd kept it up another day I'd have let her go. It's never entered that the only reason I keep her is because this depression's on and she needs her dollar and quarter every week she can get it." | Miss Merriweather |
| "His food doesn't stick going down, does it?" | Miss Maudie |
| "High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will." | Scout |
| Atticus, he was real nice.." his hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. " Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them | Scout |
| "Well, it's very simple," he said. " Some folks don't- like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with 'em, I don't care if they don't like it. I do say I don't care if they don't like it , right enough- but I don't say the hell with 'em, see? | Dolphus Raymond |
| "Let's try to make him come out," ____ said, "I'd like to see what he looks like" | Dill |
| "You are too young to understand it, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of-oh, or your father." | Miss Maudie |
| "-and most of all, without catching Maycomb's usual disease. Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up is something I don't pretend to understand. | Atticus |
| "Still think your father can't do anything... forgot to tell you the other day that besides playing the Jew harp Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time." | Miss Maudie |
| "He ain't company Cal, he's just a Cunningham." | Scout |
| "She asked me to tell you you must try to behave like the little lady and gentleman you are. She wants me to talk to you about the family and what it has meant to Maycomb County through the years, so you'll have some idea of who you are, so you might be moved to behave accordingly...I don't want you to remember that. Forget it." | Atticus |
| "I thought he would have a fine surprise, but his face killed my joy. A flash of plain fear was going out of his eyes, but returned when Dill and Jem wriggled into the light" | Scout |
| "All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbors was, that if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white." | Scout |
| "It's like bein' a caterpillar in a cacoon, that's what it is," he said. "Like somethin' asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that's what they seemed like." | Jem |
| "Why couldn't I mash him?" I asked. "Because they don't bother you," | Scout and Jem |
| "Thus began our longest journey together." | Scout |
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