| “Scout, I’m tellin’ you for the last time, shut your trap or go home- I declare to the Lord you’re getting more like a girl every day!” (pg. 69) | Jem |
| “When I went back for my breeches- they were all in a tangle when I was gettin’ out of ’em, I couldn’t get ’em loose. When I went back . . . they were folded across the fence like they were expectin’ me.” (pg. 78) | Jem |
| “Tree’s dying. You plug ’em with cement when they’re sick. You ought to know that, Jem.” (pg. 83) | Nathan Radley |
| “Hasn’t snowed in Maycomb since Appomattox. It’s bad children like you makes the seasons change.” (pg. 87) | Mr. Avery |
| “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you.” (pg. 96) | Atticus |
| “From now on it’ll be everybody less one.” (pg. 99) | Atticus |
| ” . . . simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one’s mine, I guess.” (pg. 101 | Atticus |
| “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” (pg. 101) | Atticus |
| “But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.” (pg. 102) | Atticus |
| “Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand . . . I just hope that Jem and Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town.” (pg. 117) | Atticus |
| “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (pg. 119) | Atticus |
| “Well, he can make somebody’s will so airtight can’t anybody meddle with it.” (pg. 120) | Ms. Maudie |
| “I saw that, One Shot Finch!” (pg. 128) | Ms. Maudie |
| “I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.” (pg. 130) | Ms. Maudie |
| “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.” (pg. 130) | Ms. Maudie |
| “Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!” (pg. 131) | Jem |
| “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions.” (pg. 139) | Atticus |
| “It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” (pg. 149) | Atticus |
To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes chapter 6-11
January 28, 2020