Harper Lee: Trending quotes (page 5)

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

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

“Now, 75 years [after], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

[Open Letter,, July 2006]”

“Nothin’s real scary except in books.”

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

“Autumn was her happiest season.”

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

“The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living in.”

“But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I’m nearly out of my mind.”

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

“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.”

“I'm Charles Baker Harris… I can read”

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

“Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”

“Finders were keepers unless title was proven.”

“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”

“Don’t push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county’d be easier to live with.”

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

“Atticus---"… said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep.”