To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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

‘but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’

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.

Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.’