SUMMER in Classic Quotes

1  That was the summer Dill came to us.

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

2  I wondered what the summer would bring.

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

3  As the summer progressed, so did our game.

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

4  Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment.

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

5  He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it.

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

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  Jem had a notion that Atticus thought our activities that night last summer were not solely confined to strip poker.

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

8  Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on.

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

9  Jem, who hadn't been near Miss Maudie's scuppernong arbor since last summer, and who knew Miss Maudie wouldn't tell Atticus if he had, issued a general denial.

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

10  Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.

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

11  I wondered if Mr. Avery knew how hopefully we had watched last summer for him to repeat his performance, and reflected that if this was our reward, there was something to say for sin.

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

12  But her cooking made up for everything: three kinds of meat, summer vegetables from her pantry shelves; peach pickles, two kinds of cake and ambrosia constituted a modest Christmas dinner.

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

13  There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

14  But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.

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

15  Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson's cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone's scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture, but money was different.

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

16  Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

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

17  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