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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
He did not do the things our schoolmates’ fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the livingroom and read.
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
I wanted you to see something about her—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.
When Aunt Alexandra went to school, self-doubt could not be found in any textbook, so she knew not its meaning.
Our father had a few peculiarities: one was, he never ate desserts; another was that he liked to walk.
Aunt Alexandra sipped coffee and radiated waves of disapproval.
