Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there. - Harper Lee

Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.

As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings — I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.