Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. โHow do you know a match don't hurt him?โ โTurtles can't feel, stupid,โ said Jem. โWhere you ever a turtle, huh?
Harper LeeIt's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.
Harper LeePrejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
Harper LeeWe said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.
Harper LeeI remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee