“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Hi, Support Group Hazel. Come
over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could”
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over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could”
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”
“Sir?”
“—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Sir?”
“—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow—anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“One does not love breathing.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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