"Go Set a Watchman" Quotes
In "Go Set a Watchman," Jean Louise Finch returns to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama, and confronts her disillusionment with her father, Atticus Finch, as she witnesses his racially prejudiced views.
fiction | 278 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
The time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right.
You can’t judge people by what they believe, you judge them by what they do.
Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.
You have a tendency not to give people credit for anything except being exactly like you.
Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.
When you’re grown, you’ll realize that the world is full of evil but if you don’t stand up to it, it’ll take over.
The answer is she was born in love with you and she has stayed in love with you all her life.
You are a bigot. A bigot. Not a big one, just an ordinary turnip-sized bigot.
The only thing I can say is, when you get caught in a lie, you don’t stay caught.
