You’ve perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard. - P86
Soft taffeta-like sounds and muffled scurrying sounds filled me with helpless dread. - P88
Miss Maudie’s tin roof quelled the flames. Roaring, the house collapsed; fire gushed everywhere, followed by a flurry of blankets from men on top of the adjacent houses, beating out sparks and burning chunks of wood. - P90
A network of tiny lines criss-crossed her palms, brown with dirt and dried blood. - P94
I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be. - P95
"The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again." - P96
"Because I could never ask you to mind me again. Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one’s mine, I guess. You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: 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 fighting with your head for a change . . . it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning." - P96
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said. - P96
"This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home." - P97
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