“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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