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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 At least I think it's an island.
2 So we've got to decide if this is an island.
3 They're all dead," said Piggy, "an this is an island.
4 If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us.
5 If this isn't an island we might be rescued straight away.
6 They found the end of the island, quite distinct, and not magicked out of shape or sense.
7 High over this end of the island, the shattered rocks lifted up their stacks and chimneys.
8 "You couldn't have a beastie, a snake-thing, on an island this size," Ralph explained kindly.
9 The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach.
10 He patted the palm trunk softly, and, forced at last to believe in the reality of the island laughed delightedly again and stood on his head.
11 The conch was silent, a gleaming tusk; Ralph's face was dark with breathlessness and the air over the island was full of bird-clamor and echoes ringing.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.
16 They had guessed before that this was an island: clambering among the pink rocks, with the sea on either side, and the crystal heights of air, they had known by some instinct that the sea lay on every side.
17 On either side rocks, cliffs, treetops and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent, tree-clad, with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail.
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