Quotes from Harper Lee

Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

Summer was our best season - everything good to eat, a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

Çirkin bir sözcük olan önyarg? ile tertemiz bir sözcük olan inanc?n ortak bir noktas? var : Her ikisi de mant???n bittiÄŸi yerde baÅŸlar.

I'm only trying to make you see beyond men's acts to their motives.

There was nothing whatever wrong with Mr. Stone, except that he possessed all the necessary qualifications for a certified public accountant: he did not like people, he was quick with numbers, he had no sense of humor, and he was butt-headed.

Hanya karena kita telah tertindas selama seratus tahun sebelum kita mulai melawan, bukanlah alasan bagi kita untuk tidak berusaha menang.

I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. I wonder what you saw and heard.

Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.

I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn't care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why. 'Because you're children and you can unterstand it,' he said.

every man's watchman, is his conscience.

Until I feared I would loose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.

Angel-bright, life-in-death; get off the road, don't suck my breath.

if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

B?rakal?m bu kez ölüyü ölü gömsün Bay Finch... b?rak?n ölüyü ölüler gömsün.

There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr Finch. Let the dead bury the dead.

The one thing she liked most about Henry Clinton was that he let her be silent when she wanted to be. She did not have to entertain him.

I don't see why I have to when he doesn't. Then listen.

but in the secret's courts of man's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it.

Matches were dangerous, but cards were fatal.

Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment. Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. (...) Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.

a alguns homens que aldrabam as mulheres no dinheiro da mercearia não lhes passaria pela cabeça aldrabar o merceeiro. Os homens tendem a compartimentar a honestidade.