“You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep. Couldn't if he was awake...” – Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird ... Movie Quotes Database

Movie QuoteDatabase

A scene from To Kill a Mockingbird 1962

Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch Mary Badham

[to Boo, about Jem]

You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep. Couldn't if he was awake, though. He wouldn't let you. Go ahead.

More from To Kill a Mockingbird

Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch Hey Boo. Narrator (Scout as an adult) By October, things had settled down again. I still looked for Boo every time I went by the Radley place. This night my mind was filled with Halloween. There was to be a pageant representing our county's agricultural products. I was to be a ham. Jem said he would escort me to the school auditorium. Thus began our longest journey together. Narrator (Scout as an adult) Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.