Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.