MAUDIE in Classic Quotes

1  Jem and I had always enjoyed the free run of Miss Maudie's yard if we kept out of her azaleas, but our contact with her was not clearly defined.

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

2  Our activities halted when any of the neighbors appeared, and once I saw Miss Maudie Atkinson staring across the street at us, her hedge clippers poised in midair.

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

3  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

4  But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.

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

5  Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson's cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone's scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture, but money was different.

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

6  Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn't jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot, terms so generous we seldom spoke to her, so careful were we to preserve the delicate balance of our relationship, but Jem and Dill drove me closer to her with their behavior.

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