"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em. But remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their heart out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
Mockingbird is a kind of bird, which here is a metaphor for innocence. That innocent people are not supposed to pay for what they didn't do. Ever read To Kill A Mockingbird? Well, I highly recommend it. First, I reckon it as a story of a white child whose father's a lawyer who fight for black people rights, as my friend told me. As I began to read it, I got the idea that it is actually about a child whose father's a lawyer who defended an innocent man being accused as rapist. As I got deeper into the story, I realized the story was all about one thing that is, perhaps, so cliche but on the other hand so human: conscience. Anyway, beside the touching story, I find this book filled with great quotes that I decided to collect them while it's still fresh in my memory. And because I need something to kill my time in this long idle holiday. Pity. Wtvr.
"You never really understood a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" - Atticus Finch
