“Will you take me home?”
He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark.
– Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 31. The only words spoken by Boo Radley in the novel, said in the Finch home. Boo asks this, in a near-whisper, of Scout. Boo has spent much of his life within the protective walls of his home, venturing out only to protect the Finch children, and he is anxious to get back home.