To Kill a Mockingbird

because if Boo Radley killed them they’d miss school instead of vacation

“The world’s endin’, Atticus! Please do something—!” I dragged him to the window and pointed.
“No it’s not,” he said. “It’s snowing.”

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”
“Sir?”
“—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

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.

Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home—”

think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time … it’s because he wants to stay inside.”

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of — oh, of your father.”

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

One does not love breathing

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.