“People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.”
“Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.”
“People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely”
“People think they are all sort of things they aren't' he had sad. 'They think they are talented when they're not; they think they're powerful when they're actually just bullies; they think they're good when they're bad. People fools themselves all the time, and they don't know that they're fools”
“People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read.”
“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”