I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colours in a parched landscape.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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