Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind.

it was bought by Atticus Finch’s grandfather from the uncle of a renowned lady poisoner who operated on both sides of the Atlantic but who came from a fine old Alabama family.

you ain’t called upon to contradict ’em, just don’t pay ’em any attention—and if you want to know somethin’, you just run to old Cal.”

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

“We-ll now, I think I’ll just go and have myself a drink on that. I never struck a woman before in my life. Think I’ll go strike your aunt and see what happens. You just sit there for a while and be quiet.”

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”