Harper Lee Jem Quotations

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin