“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
— Harper Lee“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
— Harper Lee“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.”
— Harper Lee“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”“The way you tell it, it is.”
— Harper Lee“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.”
— Harper Lee