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

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something — that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

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