Ewell Quotes

#1. But in the secret's courts of man's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

Harper Lee

#2. Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell's shoes a minute. I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does.

Harper Lee

#3. Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell's division commander,

Jeff Shaara

#4. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does. So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that's something I'll gladly take. He had to take it out on somebody and I'd rather it be me than that houseful of children out there.

Harper Lee

#5. I may not be much, Mr. Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County, and Bob Ewell fell on his knife.

Harper Lee

#6. What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?" "Something furtive," Aunt Alexandra said. "You may count on that." "Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb," Atticus answered.

Harper Lee

#7. Walk Like David...From Sharon Ewell Foster's Novel, Ain't No River

Leola Charles

#8. Old Mr. Bob Ewell accused him of rapin' his girl an' had him arrested an' put in jail - " "Mr.

Harper Lee

#9. Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years.

Harper Lee

#10. Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job.

Michael Shaara

#11. It was Miss Stephanie's pleasure to tell us: this morning Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of
his life.

Harper Lee

#12. I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn't dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don't tell me judges don't try to prejudice juries.

Harper Lee

#13. About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?"
"I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

Harper Lee

#14. A like N.B. that Ewell ends up inserting under the heading Biker is that every professional tattooist everybody who can remember getting their tattoos remembers getting them from was, from the sound of everybody's general description, a Biker.

David Foster Wallace

#15. Nowadays, everyone broadcasts everything about their life - I think vampires are really sexy because there's so much that you don't know about them. There's a lot of mystery.

Kayla Ewell

#16. The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.

Richard S. Ewell

#17. Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy?

Richard S. Ewell

#18. Sometimes I imagine we're all like paper stars, folded up and gathered together, each of us convinced that we are glittering and celestial, each of us bent into a shape so we believe we're something we're not.

Katherine Ewell

#19. My all-time favorite is Brad Pitt in 'Interview with the Vampire.' He's so sexy. I'm a fan of anything he does, but in that film he's a vampire who doesn't want to feed. There's something super sexy about someone who has to feed to survive but doesn't want to do it.

Kayla Ewell

#20. I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end, we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

Kayla Ewell

#21. I kill on order. I am everyone's assassin. I belong to no one but the grim reaper herself.

Katherine Ewell

#22. We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.

Richard S. Ewell

#23. I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.

Kayla Ewell

#24. What a pity it is that we've lived the lives we've lived.

Katherine Ewell

#25. For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality -it is merely an opinion.

Katherine Ewell

#26. I eat hamburgers all the time.

Kayla Ewell

#27. We cried. The bones and dust of our fathers cried with us.

Sharon Ewell Foster

#28. Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge of something vast and dark and dangerous and explosive.

Katherine Ewell

#29. I'm sort of a gym buff. It's a stress relief for me. But I only go for 20 minutes at a time.

Kayla Ewell

#30. What does it mean to be me? I don't know. Maybe that's just it. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe all I am is emptiness, is nothing.

Katherine Ewell

#31. Freedom is just another word for no one cares.

Katherine Ewell

#32. There is no escape for me now, I know. Everything is over. I had my run. I was a murderer, a beautiful one, but I lived in a house of cards all my life and now it's all coming back to punish me, and there is no escape.

Katherine Ewell

#33. I'm a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

Kayla Ewell

#34. But was it worth anything?
That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.
I am afraid of ambiguity and certainity and permanence and impermanence.
And so is everybody else.

Katherine Ewell