Things are never as bad as they seem.
HARPER LEEThings are never as bad as they seem.
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 LEEShe knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
HARPER LEEThe 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.
HARPER LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEEPeople generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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 LEERest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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 the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
HARPER LEEIt’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
HARPER LEEReal courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
HARPER LEEAny writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEEI think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEEI do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEE