LIFE in Classic Quotes

1  In all his life, Jem had never declined a dare.

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

2  I never looked forward more to anything in my life.

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

3  That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

4  With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

5  He had probably never seen three quarters together at the same time in his life.

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

6  Jem said he reckoned he wasn't, he'd passed the Radley Place every school day of his life.

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

7  For the life of me I could not figure out how she could bring herself to speak to him when she seemed to hate him so.

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

8  She still disapproved heartily of my doings, and said I'd probably spend the rest of my life bailing you out of jail.

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

9  When she settled in with us and life resumed its daily pace, Aunt Alexandra seemed as if she had always lived with us.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

10  Enarmored, upright, uncompromising, Aunt Alexandra was sitting in a rocking chair exactly as if she had sat there every day of her life.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

11  For the life of me, I did not understand how he could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

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

12  I suppose I should include Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Alexandra's husband, but as he never spoke a word to me in my life except to say, "Get off the fence," once, I never saw any reason to take notice of him.

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

13  Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

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

14  Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life.

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

15  The place was self-sufficient: modest in comparison with the empires around it, the Landing nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing, supplied by river-boats from Mobile.

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

16  To all parties present and participating in the life of the county, Aunt Alexandra was one of the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was born in the objective case; she was an incurable gossip.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

17  When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.

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