Harper Lee's recent death absolutely broke my heart. "To Kill A Mockingbird" was one of the first books I truly fell in love with. To honor this amazing author, I've collected some of my favorite quotes from "To Kill A Mockingbird."
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
"People generally see what they are looking for, and hear what they listen for."
"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."
"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change."
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
"We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple."
"I do my best to love everybody."
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
"Things are always better in the morning."
"Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere."
"As a reader, I loathe introductions... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity."
"There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us."
"Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."
"Things are never as bad as they seem."
"Are you proud of yourself tonight that you insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?"
"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it."
"Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?" "The way you tell it, it is."
"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."
"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
"Cry about the simple hell people give people -- without even thinking. Cry about the hell what people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too."
