We are making a step. It’s just a baby step but it’s a step.
A man can be boiling inside, but he knows a mild answer works better than showing his rage. A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
When you live in New York, you often have the feeling that New York’s not the world. I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I’m coming back to the world, and when I leave Maycomb it’s like leaving the world.
What made you think of Dill?” she asked. “I don’t know. Just thought of him.” “You never liked him, did you?” Henry smiled. “I was jealous of him. He had you and Jem to himself all summer long, while I had to go home the day school was out. There was nobody at home to fool around with.
Sometimes I think I’m a total failure as a parent, but I’m all they’ve got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
She glanced with satisfaction at the neat swath behind her. The grass lay crisply cut and smelled like a creek bank. The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.
They’re people, aren’t they? We were quite willing to import them when they made money for us.
I fall in love everyday, with ideas and sensations, people I see. I hold them long enough to let them go, but I keep them in my heart and in my soul.
You folks might be better than the Cunninghams, but it doesn’t count for nothing the way you’re disgracing them.
You’d better take time for ’em, honey, otherwise you’ll never grow. You’ll be the same at sixty as you are now – then you’ll be a case and not my niece. You have a tendency not to give anybody elbow room in your mind for their ideas, no matter how silly you think they are.
Summer, and he watched his children’s heart break.
Aver coraggio significa sapere di essere sconfitti prima ancora di cominciare, e cominciare egualmente e arrivare sino in fondo, qualsiasi cosa succeda.
Dill was a villain’s villain: he could get into any character part assigned him, and appear tall if height was part of the devilry required.
Atticus, you’ve never laid a hand on her.” “I admit that. So far I’ve been able to get by with threats. Jack, she minds me as well as she can. Doesn’t come up to scratch half the time, but she tries.” “That’s not the answer,” said Uncle Jack. “No, the answer is she knows I know she tries. That’s what makes the difference.
L’estate significava per me Dill accanto alla vasca dei pesci che fumava sigarette di canapa; significava gli occhi di Dill che brillavano mentre almanaccava complicati progetti per stanare Boo Radley; l’estate significava Dill che mi baciava, rapido, quando Jem non ci guardava, significava le nostalgie che ciascuno di noi provava e che l’altro intuiva: con lui la vita era normale; senza di lui, insopportabile.
Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up for a while.
Jean Louise, will you please listen to me?” “God damn you, what?” “I just want to ask you one thing, one thing – what the hell do you expect me to do? Tell me, what the hell do you expect me to do?” “Do? I expect you to keep your gold-plated ass out of citizens’ councils! I don’t give a damn if Atticus is sitting across from you, if the King of England’s on your right and the Lord Jehovah’s on your left – I expect you to be a man, that’s all!” She.
I tried to explain to Atticus that it wasn’t so much what Francis said that had infuriated me as the way he had said it. “It was like he’d said snot-nose or somethin’.
You are too young to understand it,′ she said, ’but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is more dangerous than a whiskey bottle...
Dill and Jem emerged from a brief huddle: “If you stay you’ve got to do what we tell you,” Dill warned. “We-ll,” I said, “who’s so high and mighty all of a sudden?” “If you don’t say you’ll do what we tell you, we ain’t gonna tell you anything,” Dill continued.