In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

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?

She was born in the Objective case.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.