Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Her work in To Kill a Mockingbird has been hailed as one of the pioneer works of literature in fighting racism. The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children.[wikipedia]
Now that Ms Harpee Lee is no more among us, her work is once again making rounds as more and more people are turning back to their sweet memories of her much beloved novel.
In commemoration of Harper Lee, here are some of the most memorable quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird.
“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
