Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing.

Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.

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

She was born in the Objective case.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.