When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
Harper LeeTags: first-sentence
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
Harper LeeThat boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
Harper LeeTags: hospitality
You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep...
Harper LeeDill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled.
"How do you know a match don't hurt him?"
"Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle, huh?
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
Harper LeeTags: girls
Pass the damn ham, please.
Harper LeeSometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Harper LeeTags: god religion hatred judgement bible
First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Harper LeeTags: people
I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
Harper LeeTags: humor
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