Madeline

“The apple does not fall far from the tree.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Until I feared I would loose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird