“Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.”

“We stepped outside rather hurriedly and down the street to anonymous sanctuary among the buildings of San Francisco."Promise me till your dying day, you'll believe that a Mellon was a Confederate general. It's the truth. That God-damn book lies! There was a Confederate general in my family!""I promise," I said and it was a promise that was kept.”

“For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.”

“Slow And steady wins every time.”

“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.”

“I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.”