You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

It's not time to worry yet

Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.