Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

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.

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.