To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) · 57 quotes
Tied for 6th most-quoted character in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962): in 4 of its 57 quotes
Most scenes with: Jeremy 'Jem' Finch (2)
Let's go down to the courthouse and see the room that they locked Boo up in. My aunt says it's bat-infested, and he nearly died from the mildew. Come on. I bet they got chains and instruments of torture down there.
Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris Not much is happening. The judge looks like he's asleep. I see your daddy and a colored man. The colored man looks to me like he's crying. I wonder what he's done to cry about?...There's a whole lot of men sitting together on one side and one man is pointing at the colored man and yelling. They're taking the colored man away.
Dill Hey.
Hey yourself.
Dill I'm Charles Baker Harris. I can read. I can read anything you've got. Folks call me Dill.
How old are you? Four and a half?
Dill Going on seven.
Well no wonder then. Scout's bin readin' since she was born, and she's not even six yet. You're mighty puny for nearly seven.
Dill I'm little but I'm old.
There goes the meanest man that ever took a breath of life.
Dill Why is he the meanest man?
Well, for one thing, he has a boy named Boo that he keeps chained to a bed in the house over yonder...See, he lives over there. Boo only comes out at night when you're asleep and it's pitch-dark. When you wake up at night, you can hear him. Once I heard him scratchin' on our screen door, but he was gone by the time Atticus got there.
Dill I wonder what he does in there? I wonder what he looks like?
Well, judgin' from his tracks, he's about six and a half feet tall. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch. There's a long, jagged scar that runs all the way across his face. His teeth are yella and rotten. His eyes are popped. And he drools most of the time.
