Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin... - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."

"Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

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

"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."

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