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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 So as we can decide what to do.
2 The rock was as large as a small motor car.
3 This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch.
4 The fair boy began to pick his way as casually as possible toward the water.
5 The boy came close and peered down at Ralph, screwing up his face as he did so.
6 The fat boy lowered himself over the terrace and sat down carefully, using the edge as a seat.
7 The tide was low and there was a strip of weed-strewn beach that was almost as firm as a road.
8 The creepers were as thick as their thighs and left little but tunnels for further penetration.
9 Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake--blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple.
10 Ralph used one hand as a fulcrum and pressed down with the other till the shell rose, dripping, and Piggy could make a grab.
11 Ralph's lips parted in a delighted smile and Piggy, taking this smile to himself as a mark of recognition, laughed with pleasure.
12 Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy.
13 Echoes and birds flew, white and pink dust floated, the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster: and then the island was still.
14 But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be dark green.
15 You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil.
16 But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch.
17 Their only guide, apart from the brown ground and occasional flashes of light through the foliage, was the tendency of slope: whether this hole, laced as it was with the cables of creeper, stood higher than that.
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