Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.