Harper Lee

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

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

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. This is a lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story — a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s

She persisted, as her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another

Atticus had urged them to accept the state’s generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives,

Atticus practiced economy more than anything;

There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with,

Atticus, Jem and I,

our mother died from a sudden heart attack

“Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage—”