Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
bernsamhas quoted2 years ago
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
b8748532588has quotedlast year
“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
b1219793562has quoted2 years ago
She persisted, as her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another
Она настаивала, поскольку ее последующая реакция-это то, что все мы знали в то или иное время
paint numbershas quoted8 months ago
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,
paint numbershas quoted8 months ago
Atticus practiced economy more than anything;
paint numbershas quoted8 months ago
There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with,
paint numbershas quoted8 months ago
Atticus, Jem and I,
atticus - lawyer, dad jem & i - siblings scout - pov
paint numbershas quoted8 months ago
our mother died from a sudden heart attack
paint numbershas quoted8 months ago
“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—”