Jem, she’s old and ill. You can’t hold her responsible for what she says and does. Of course, I’d rather she’d have said it to me than to either of you, but we can’t always have our ’druthers.
When she dressed, she put on her Maycomb clothes: gray slacks, a black sleeveless blouse, white socks, and loafers. Although it was four hours away, she could hear her aunt’s sniff of disapproval.
You tell Cecil I’m about as radical as Cotton Tom Heflin.
Genius overcomes all obstacles.
She had slept twelve hours, and her shoulders ached from weariness.
I hope the world will little note nor long remember what you are saying here.
A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
A world she despised, could not comprehend, nor defend herself against. a world that did not want her.
Possession holds good against all comers except the true owner.
Since there was no evidence of criminal intent, he wouldn’t be above throwin’ a little dust in a juryman’s eyes.
Trains changed – conductors never did.
When Jean Louise and her brother were children, Atticus had occasional drawn them a sharp distinction between mere scatology and blasphemy. The one he could abide. He hated dragging God into it.
She was afflicted with a restlessness of spirit he could not guess at, but he knew she was the one for him.
We wondered when your conscience and his would part company.
I wonder if your eyes and ears ever make anything save spasmodic contact with your brain.
He was bleeding slowly to death in the midst of abundance, for his life’s blood was poverty.
Now we are both lonely, for entirely different reasons, but it feels the same, doesn’t it?
Maycomb drew us frequently up the street past the real property of Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose. It was impossible to.
This would not do, I mused, as the class proceeded with its sums. One maniac and millions of German folks. Looked to me like they’d shut Hitler in a pen instead of letting him shut them up. There was something else wrong.
Once a week, we had a Current Events period. Each child was supposed to clip an item from a newspaper, absorb its contents, and reveal them to the class. This practice allegedly overcame a variety of evils: standing in front of his fellows encouraged good posture and gave a child poise; delivering a short talk made him word-conscious; learning his current event strengthened his memory; being singled out made him more than ever anxious to return to the Group.