I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

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