I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'. β¨ Harper Lee (1960). TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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- Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. β¨ Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, p.36, Inf β¦ βΆ
- Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself. β¨ All Harper Lee wanted was to be 'the Jane Austen of South Alabama' - here's how she accomplished that and so much more by Rachel G β¦ βΆ
- 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 ' β¦ βΆ
- I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read β¨ Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird
- Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. β¨ Harper Lee (1960). TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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