Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.

It'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.

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

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

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.