Jem Quotes

Wherever we are, we are as one

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.

You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa

She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.

Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself

She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

"Jem?" he said. "Is it you, James?" "Who else?" Jem's voice.

You think she is pretty?' Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined this sort of thing. 'Yes, and you do too.' 'I hadn't noticed, really.' 'Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing.

Jem is my greatest sin.