Zitate von Harper Lee
Harper Lee
Geburtstag: 28. April 1926
Todesdatum: 19. Februar 2016
Harper Lee, bürgerlich Nelle Lee, , war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Pulitzer-Preisträgerin. Ihr bis zum Juli 2015 einziges veröffentlichtes Buch Wer die Nachtigall stört verkaufte sich über 40 Millionen Mal.
Zitate Harper Lee
„Aber wenn es nur eine Art von Menschen gibt, warum können sie dann nicht miteinander auskommen? Wenn sie alle gleich sind, warum haben sie dann nichts anderes im Kopf als sich gegenseitig zu verabscheuen? Scout, so allmählich wird mir was klar. So allmählich wird mir klar, weshalb Boo Radley die ganze Zeit im Haus bleibt... Er tut´s, weil er drinbleiben will“
— Harper Lee
York Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird
„Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 2
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
„People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
„The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
„Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
„I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 23
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
„They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Atticus Finch
„Atticus, he was real nice."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
„People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 10
Miss Maudie
„Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.“
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Context: "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.
“Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Pt. 1, ch. 10
Atticus Finch & Maudie Atkinson
