“Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about.”

“A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.”

“Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.”

“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.”

“Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.”

“And then she began to think about Lady Glencora herself. What a strange, weird nature she was,—with her round blue eyes and wavy hair, looking sometimes like a child and sometimes almost like an old woman! And how she talked! What things she said, and what terrible forebodings she uttered of stranger things that she meant to say!”