She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
HARPER LEEShe seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
HARPER LEEUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEESummer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
HARPER LEEThere’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
HARPER LEEYou can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEEWriting is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
HARPER LEEThe book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
HARPER LEESometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
HARPER LEEPrejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
HARPER LEESometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEEI’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
HARPER LEEPeople generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEEEverybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEEWith him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEE