To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

a black dog suffered on a summer’s day;

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view –’

until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’

God’s loving folks like you love yourself –’

There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one,

‘Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,’ Atticus said.

it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

‘Every one of ’em oughta be ridin’ broomsticks. Aunt Rachel already does.’

Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining.”

I was a ham.’