JEM in Classic Quotes

1  "Don't worry, Scout," Jem comforted me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

2  "Ain't scared, just respectful," Jem said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

3  In all his life, Jem had never declined a dare.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  Besides, Jem had his little sister to think of.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

5  This yard's as much mine as it is yours, Jem Finch.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

6  "Dill, you have to think about these things," Jem said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

7  Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

8  When Walter caught up with us, Jem made pleasant conversation with him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

9  Indeed, Jem grew boastful: "I went all the way up to the house once," he said to Walter.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

10  But while no one with a grain of sense trusted Miss Stephanie, Jem and I had considerable faith in Miss Maudie.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

11  Early one morning as we were beginning our day's play in the back yard, Jem and I heard something next door in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

12  She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson's upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

13  When Atticus went inside the house to retrieve a file he had forgotten to take to work that morning, Jem finally realized that he had been done in by the oldest lawyer's trick on record.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

14  When it was time to play Boo's big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from the sewing-machine drawer when Calpurnia's back was turned, then sit in the swing and cut up newspapers.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

15  I had spent most of the day climbing up and down, running errands for him, providing him with literature, nourishment and water, and was carrying him blankets for the night when Atticus said if I paid no attention to him, Jem would come down.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

16  He still maintained, however, that Atticus hadn't said we couldn't, therefore we could; and if Atticus ever said we couldn't, Jem had thought of a way around it: he would simply change the names of the characters and then we couldn't be accused of playing anything.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

17  When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2