“It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn’t know...”
“it doesn’t matter where we are going, or what the future brings and what people might do to us, the past always comes back one way or another.”
“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”
“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”
“He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?”
“I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.”