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

Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to a chair and placed her in the furnace room. We forgot her, trooped upstairs to church, and were listening quietly to the sermon when a dreadful banging issued from the radiator pipes, persisting until someone investigated and brought forth Eunice Ann saying she didn't want to play Shadrach any more - Jem Finch said she wouldn't get burnt if she had enough faith, but it was hot down there.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.