READING in Classic Quotes

1  Jem reopened Ivanhoe and began reading.

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

2  It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

3  Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

4  "I have a feeling that Jem's reading days are numbered," said Atticus.

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

5  Most of the time you were reading to her I doubt if she heard a word you said.

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

6  Sometimes when we made a midnight pilgrimage to the bathroom we would find him reading.

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

7  Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

8  If you'll concede the necessity of going to school, we'll go on reading every night just as we always have.

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

9  He was sitting in one of his office chairs, and he was reading, oblivious of the nightbugs dancing over his head.

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

10  Dill and Jem were quiet; when I turned off my reading lamp there was no strip of light under the door to Jem's room.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

11  Dill was over; Aunt Alexandra was in her chair in the corner, Atticus was in his; Jem and I were on the floor reading.

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

12  Atticus would flee to his office directly after dinner, where if we sometimes looked in on him, we would find him sitting back in his swivel chair reading.

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

13  The alarm clock had ceased sounding, but Mrs. Dubose would release us with, "That'll do," so late in the afternoon Atticus would be home reading the paper when we returned.

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

14  Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

15  Atticus kept us in fits that evening, gravely reading columns of print about a man who sat on a flagpole for no discernible reason, which was reason enough for Jem to spend the following Saturday aloft in the treehouse.

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

16  If the remainder of the school year were as fraught with drama as the first day, perhaps it would be mildly entertaining, but the prospect of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away.

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

17  As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something.

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