That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

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

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.