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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Sitting, Ralph was aware of the heat for the first time that day.
2 Mummy had still been with them and Daddy had come home every day.
3 This day promised, like the others, to be a sunbath under a blue dome.
4 For the first time that day, and despite the crowding blackness, Ralph sniggered.
5 Two grey trunks rubbed each other with an evil speaking that no one had noticed by day.
6 So Ralph asserted his chieftainship and could not have chosen a better way if he had thought for days.
7 They ate most of the day, picking fruit where they could reach it and not particular about ripeness and quality.
8 Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting.
9 They were dirty, not with the spectacular dirt of boys who have fallen into mud or been brought down hard on a rainy day.
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 The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.
12 Any day there may be a ship out there"--he waved his arm at the taut wire of the horizon--"and if we have a signal going they'll come and take us off.
13 Nevertheless, the northern European tradition of work, play, and food right through the day, made it possible for them to adjust themselves wholly to this new rhythm.
14 The littlun Percival had early crawled into a shelter and stayed there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused.
15 A steady current of heated air rose all day from the mountain and was thrust to ten thousand feet; revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode.
16 The beach stretched away before them in a gentle curve till perspective drew it into one with the forest; for the day was not advanced enough to be obscured by the shifting veils of mirage.