MYSELF in Classic Quotes

1  I contented myself with asking Jem if he'd lost his mind.

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

2  For no reason I felt myself beginning to cry, but I could not stop.

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

3  I found myself suddenly looking at a tiny ant struggling with a bread crumb in the grass.

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

4  I put on my pajamas, read for a while and found myself suddenly unable to keep my eyes open.

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

5  I found myself in the middle of the Idlers' Club and made myself as unobtrusive as possible.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

6  Jem arbitrated, awarded me first push with an extra time for Dill, and I folded myself inside the tire.

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

7  I looked down and found myself clutching a brown woolen blanket I was wearing around my shoulders, squaw-fashion.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

8  I tortured myself and decided that if I married Jem and Dill had a sister whom he married our children would be double first cousins.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

9  He was still on the bed and I couldn't get a firm stance, so I threw myself at him as hard as I could, hitting, pulling, pinching, gouging.

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

10  I told Calpurnia to just wait, I'd fix her: one of these days when she wasn't looking I'd go off and drown myself in Barker's Eddy and then she'd be sorry.

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

11  When it bonged eleven times I was past feeling: tired from fighting sleep, I allowed myself a short nap against Reverend Sykes's comfortable arm and shoulder.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21

12  After my bout with Cecil Jacobs when I committed myself to a policy of cowardice, word got around that Scout Finch wouldn't fight any more, her daddy wouldn't let her.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

13  I had lost the thread of conversation long ago, when they quit talking about Tom Robinson's wife, and had contented myself with thinking of Finch's Landing and the river.

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

14  They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

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

15  As Dill explained, I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do if Atticus did not feel the necessity of my presence, help and advice.

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

16  As we came to the live oaks at the Radley Place I raised my finger to point for the hundredth time to the knot-hole where I had found the chewing gum, trying to make Jem believe I had found it there, and found myself pointing at another piece of tinfoil.

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

17  If I could have explained these things to Miss Caroline, I would have saved myself some inconvenience and Miss Caroline subsequent mortification, but it was beyond my ability to explain things as well as Atticus, so I said, "You're shamin him, Miss Caroline."

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