Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

"Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people's breath in the air. There was even something to look forward to when school started - renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. Fall was hot-supper time with everything to eat one missed in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it."

"They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes’ conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality."

"I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days."

"(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens' council."

"When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout."

"It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable."

"The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here."

"As Kipling said, that’s another story..."

"I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference."

"I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world."

"Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed."

"He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being."

"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."