People generally see what they look for, and hear what they... - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."

"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."