There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

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