“See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin”

“Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see.”

“If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?”

“She tapped her foot. “Sometimes I swear you’re your father except with lady parts. You act exactly like him!” -Gram to Sophie”

“Come with me," she said. "Stay with me. Be with me. See everything with me. I have traveled the world and seen so much, but there is so much more, and no one I would rather see it with than you. I would go everywhere and anywhere with you, Jem Carstairs.”

“If you so much as start to bow or anything like that, Dave, I'll beat you up. I swear I will.”