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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 That's a wound," said Simon, "and you ought to suck it.
2 Once more Jack led them along by the suck and heave of the blinding sea.
3 With ludicrous care he embraced the rock, pressing himself to it above the sucking sea.
4 Then the sea sucked down, revealing a red, weedy square forty feet beneath Ralph's left arm.
5 Over to the left, the waves of ocean were breathing, sucking down, then boiling back over the rock.
6 There was one flat rock there, spread like a table, and the waters sucking down on the four weedy sides made them seem like cliffs.
7 Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone.
8 If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.
9 Now the sea would suck down, making cascades and waterfalls of retreating water, would sink past the rocks and plaster down the seaweed like shining hair: then, pausing, gather and rise with a roar, irresistibly swelling over point and outcrop, climbing the little cliff, sending at last an arm of surf up a gully to end a yard or so from him in fingers of spray.