Chapter 1
"The only remedy for this is not to let it beat you." (1.33)
Chapter 2
Alexandra's voice cut through her ruminations: "Jean Louise, did you come down on the train Like That?" (2.45)
Chapter 3
Alexandra was not amused. She was extremely annoyed. She could not comprehend the attitudes of young people these days. (3.71)
Chapter 4
"Conservative resistance to change, that's all," said Jean Louise behind a mouthful of fried shrimp. (4.9)
Chapter 5
Revival time was a time of war: war on sin, Coca-Cola, picture shows, hunting on Sunday; war on the increasing tendency of young women to paint themselves and smoke in public; war on drinking whisk...
Chapter 7
"Apparently," [Dr. Finch] said, "apparently our brethren in the Northland are not content merely with the Supreme Court's activities. They are now trying to change our hymns on us." (7.29)
Chapter 8
With the same suddenness that a barbarous boy yanks the larva of an ant lion from its hole to leave it struggling in the sun, Jean Louise was snatched from her quiet realm and left alone to protect...
Chapter 9
She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father. (9.14)
Chapter 11
"Miss Scout, different folks get married for different kinds of reasons. Miss Alexandra, I think she got married to keep house." (11.123)
Chapter 12
She threw off the spread, put her feet to the floor, and sat gazing at her long legs, startled to find them twenty-six years old. (12.1)
Chapter 13
I was taught never to take advantage of anyone who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody, not just Negroes. (13.111)
Chapter 14
"The South's in its last agonizing birth pain. It's bringing forth something new and I'm not sure I like it, but I won't be here to see it. You will. Men like me and my brother are obsolete and we'...
Chapter 15
A diploma meant more to Henry than to most of his friends. It was all right for some of them to be expelled; in a pinch, they could go off to a boarding school. (15.153)
Chapter 16
"A long time ago the Klan was respectable, like the Masons." (16.45)
Chapter 17
"Jefferson believed full citizenship was a privilege to be earned by each man." (17.89)
Chapter 18
"When you happened along and saw [Atticus] doing something that seemed to you to be the very antithesis of his conscience—your conscience—you literally could not stand it. It made you physicall...