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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 There was something moving behind its head--wings.
2 There came a rushing sound from its mouth but nothing more.
3 The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face.
4 Before them, something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees.
5 Even in the rain they could see how small a beast it was; and already its blood was staining the sand.
6 Ralph and Piggy lay in the sand, gazing at the fire and idly flicking pebbles into its smokeless heart.
7 Ralph surprised himself, not so much by the quality of his voice, which was even, but by the bravado of its intention.
8 The movement became regular while the chant lost its first superficial excitement and began to beat like a steady pulse.
9 Then, each time the wind dropped, the lines would slacken and the figure bow forward again, sinking its head between its knees.
10 He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.
11 Then the wind roared in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face.
12 He became conscious of the weight of clothes, kicked his shoes off fiercely and ripped off each stocking with its elastic garter in a single movement.
13 The sand, trembling beneath the heat haze, concealed many figures in its miles of length; boys were making their way toward the platform through the hot, dumb sand.
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 Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines.
16 By the trunk of a vast tree that grew pale flowers on its grey bark he checked, closed his eyes, and once more drew in the warm air; and this time his breath came short, there was even a passing pallor in his face, and then the surge of blood again.
17 His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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