BOO RADLEY in Classic Quotes

1  Dill asked if I'd like to have a poke at Boo Radley.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

2  So many things had happened to us, Boo Radley was the least of our fears.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 26

3  Jem seemed to have little fear of Boo Radley now that Walter and I walked beside him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

4  If Mr. Ewell was as forgotten as Tom Robinson, Tom Robinson was as forgotten as Boo Radley.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 27

5  She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19

6  He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

7  But there came a day, barely within Jem's memory, when Boo Radley was heard from and was seen by several people, but not by Jem.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  It would flutter to the ground and Jem would jab it up, until I thought if Boo Radley ever received it he wouldn't be able to read it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

9  Shoulder up, I reeled around to face Boo Radley and his bloody fangs; instead, I saw Dill ringing the bell with all his might in Atticus's face.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

10  But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  Dr. Reynolds's voice was as breezy as his step, as though he had said it every evening of his life, an announcement that astounded me even more than being in the same room with Boo Radley.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 30

12  I was fairly sure Boo Radley was inside that house, but I couldn't prove it, and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or I would be accused of believing in Hot Steams, phenomena I was immune to in the daytime.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

13  Dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley, and if I didn't want to go with them I could go straight home and keep my fat flopping mouth shut, that was all.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

14  I never thought it as much fun as Tarzan, and I played that summer with more than vague anxiety despite Jem's assurances that Boo Radley was dead and nothing would get me, with him and Calpurnia there in the daytime and Atticus home at night.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

15  Jem, having survived Boo Radley, a mad dog and other terrors, had concluded that it was cowardly to stop at Miss Rachel's front steps and wait, and had decreed that we must run as far as the post office corner each evening to meet Atticus coming from work.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

16  When we were small, Jem and I confined our activities to the southern neighborhood, but when I was well into the second grade at school and tormenting Boo Radley became passe, the business section of Maycomb drew us frequently up the street past the real property of Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

17  Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge, every passing Negro laughing in the night was Boo Radley loose and after us; insects splashing against the screen were Boo Radley's insane fingers picking the wire to pieces; the chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering, alive.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6