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.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.