"I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to."

"Finders were keepers unless title was proven."

"Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases."

"Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."

"Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live."

"Autumn was her happiest season."

"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."

"Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean."

"I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read"

"They're ugly, but those are the facts of life."

"Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own."

"I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason."

"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."

"Nothin’s real scary except in books."

"Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives."

"You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live."

"I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference."

"Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing."

"Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"If you did not want much, there was plenty."

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

"You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

"I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing."

"Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?"