Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. - Harper Lee

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can’t understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.