Atticus

Finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird @ 1am kanina. Onggondolong. Yung mapapa-aaaaaaayyyy ka sa huli. Feel-good-na-malalalim-na-nakakatuwa-na-nakakahumble. Anyway, di ko na siguro kailangang idetalye kung bakit siya maganda dahil for sure ilang milyon na ang gumawa ng papel tungkol sa classic na librong ito. Sana lang, dumami ang mga taong tulad ni Atticus sa world.

Char.

Ito na lang favorite quotes ko from the book (mostly dialogues ni Atticus, syempot):

• “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” 

• “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. 

• “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.” 

• “Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays 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 except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” 

• “Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” 

• “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” 

• “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.” 

• “As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.” 

• “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” 

• “You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.” 

• “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.” 

• “There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.”

Lastly, maipasok ko lang ang love choba from Harper Lee's "Love -- In Other Words":

Love purifies. Suffering never purified anybody; suffering merely intensifies the self-directed drives within us. Any act of love, however--no matter how small--lessens anxiety's grip. gives us a taste of tomorrow, and eases the yoke of our fears. Love, unlike virtue, is not its own reward. The reward of love is peace of mind, and peace of mind is the end of man's desiring.