Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.