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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 They heaved the fallen boy to the platform and let him lie.
2 On the end of the platform, Piggy was lying flat, looking down into the brilliant water.
3 I'll lie up close; in that thicket down there," he whispered, "so keep them away from it.
4 They were laughing, singing, lying, squatting, or standing on the grass, holding food in their hands.
5 Just behind the cottage there was a sort of shed and you could lie up there, watching the flakes swirl past.
6 Either the wandering breezes or perhaps the decline of the sun allowed a little coolness to lie under the trees.
7 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.
8 Instead of remaining and playing, he swam with steady strokes under Simon and crawled out of the other side of the pool to lie there, sleek and streaming like a seal.
9 Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.
10 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.
11 If you wormed into the middle of that you would be five yards from the edge, and hidden, unless the savage chose to lie down and look for you; and even then, you would be in darkness--and if the worst happened and he saw you, then you had a chance to burst out at him, fling the whole line out of step and double back.