DARKNESS in Classic Quotes

1  It was mighty dark out there, black as ink.

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

2  Boo would feel more comfortable in the dark.

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

3  Jem whistled bob-white and Dill answered in the darkness.

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

4  Jem said, "He goes out, all right, when it's pitch dark."

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

5  Didn't look like it'd be this dark earlier in the evening.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

6  "Because they don't bother you," Jem answered in the darkness.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 25

7  A two-rut road ran from the riverside and vanished among dark trees.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

8  This he did with enthusiasm; most afternoons he was seldom home before dark.

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

9  I pushed my way through dark smelly bodies and burst into the circle of light.

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

10  A light shone in the county toilet, otherwise that side of the courthouse was dark.

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

11  I asked Jem how Cecil could follow us in this dark, looked to me like he'd bump into us from behind.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

12  I took one giant step and found myself reeling: my arms useless, in the dark, I could not keep my balance.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

13  His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick.

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

14  Not nearly time for him to be home, and on Missionary Society days he usually stayed downtown until black dark.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

15  The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dogs.

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

16  The back of the Radley house was less inviting than the front: a ramshackle porch ran the width of the house; there were two doors and two dark windows between the doors.

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

17  High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28