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

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

I don't hafta take his sass