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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Jack bent down to them as though he loved them.
2 The words came from Jack viciously, as though they were a curse.
3 Piggy lifted the conch as though to add power to his next words.
4 The boys stirred uneasily, as though something indecent had been said.
5 Piggy screwed up his face but Simon cried out as though he had hurt himself.
6 Piggy sniveled and Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly in church.
7 He lowered his chin and stared at the traces as though he would force them to speak to him.
8 Then as though they had but one terrified mind between them they scrambled away over the rocks and fled.
9 The bottom part of the trickle, as though conscious of their gaze, thickened to a creamy blur which crept up the feeble column.
10 By now, Ralph had no self-consciousness in public thinking but would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess.
11 Ralph glanced sideways, smiled constrainedly as though he had forgotten that Simon had made a fool of himself, then looked away again at nothing.
12 He stopped, facing the strip; and remembering that first enthusiastic exploration as though it were part of a brighter childhood, he smiled jeeringly.
13 The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished.
14 The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.
15 Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person.
16 The rest were shockheaded, but Piggy's hair still lay in wisps over his head as though baldness were his natural state and this imperfect covering would soon go, like the velvet on a young stag's antlers.
17 Toward noon, as the floods of light fell more nearly to the perpendicular, the stark colors of the morning were smoothed in pearl and opalescence; and the heat--as though the impending sun's height gave it momentum--became a blow that they ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping.
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