“İyi biri olarak doğduğumu ama her yıl kötüleştiğimi söylüyordu. Duygularımı incitiyordu. Atticus'a sorduğumda 'ailede yeterince güneş ışığı var, böyle iyisin' dedi.”

“Fino al giorno in cui mi minacciarono di non lasciarmi più leggere, non seppi di amare la lettura: si ama, forse, il proprio respiro?”

“One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that - chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless," said Jem carefully. "Doesn't that sound nice?”

“She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. She persisted, and her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another. She did something every child has done-she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim-of necessity she must put him away from her-he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense.”

“Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.”

“She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. ”

“Whatever she says to you, it’s your jobnot to let her make you mad.”