It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

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

Things are never as bad as they seem.

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

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

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.