"That's okay , ma'am, you'll get to know all the country folk after a while. The Cunningham's never took anything they can't payback. "
"Walter's one of the Cunninghams, Ms. Caroline. "
"I beg your pardon, Jean Louise?"
"This wasn't on the ground it was in a tree. "
"Don't eat things you find, Scout."
" You can't do that, Scout. Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So school you must go.
" Burris Ewell, remember? He just goes to school the first day. The truant lady reckons she's carried out the law when she gets his name on the roll-
" If he's not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets-"
"Do you think they're true, all those things they say about B- Mr. Arthur? You recken he's crazy?"
"Mr, Radley, ah- did you put cement in that hole in that tree down yonder?"
" Tree's dying. You plug 'em with cement when they're sick. You ought to know that, Jem
" Is that tree dyin'?"
" It ain't even sick?
" Why no, son, I don't think so. Look at the leaves, they're all green and full, no brown patches anywhere-"