TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) // SENTENCE STARTERS
feel free to change these to your liking !
it wasnât a very big world, but neither was i.
why donât you come down and have your breakfast now?
you tend to your own marbles.
he wonât let me have a gun.
you count your blessings and stop complaining, both of you.
you look right puny for your age.
iâm little, but iâm old.
there goes the meanest man who ever took a breath of life.
well, judging from his tracks, heâs about six and a half feet tall. he eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch. thereâs a long, jagged scar running across his face. his teeth are yellow and rotten. his eyes popped. and he drools most of the time.
aw, i donât believe you!
heâs liable to come out with his scissors and stab us all.
donât you say âheyâ to me, you ugly girl.
listen to me when iâm talking to you.Â
donât your daddy teach you to respect old people?Â
sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another.
you look like a picture this afternoon.
i want you to stop tormenting those poor people and stay away from there.
i donât think we better read anymore tonight, honey. itâs getting late.
can i sit with you for a while?
youâre up bright and early.
iâve been up since four.
i want you back home right away.
do you want to poison yourself?
come on, iâll tuck you in.
letâs see if you can read this.
what in the sam hill are you doing?
now, now. none of that crying.
you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
there are lots of ugly things in this world, son.
cut the fighting, you hear?
i donât care what the reasons are. you need to keep your temper under control.
you arenât old enough to understand some things yet.
if you shouldnât be defending him, why are you doing it?
why donât you have a seat? that chairâs mighty comfortable.
neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between.Â