Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

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

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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.

summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

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