About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. 'Your stomach's growling,' I said. 'I know it,' he said.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

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.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.