4 Quotes Tagged: jem

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

"Atticus — -" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it — - seems that only children weep."

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.