Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

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

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.