Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

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

Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.