NIGHT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Here then was the night's lair.
2 Only Ralph says you scream in the night.
3 It wasn't half cold down there in the night.
4 The night was cool and purged of immediate terror.
5 Ralph settled himself for his nightly game of supposing.
6 Last night I had a dream, a horrid dream, fighting with things.
7 And anyway, he couldn't stay here all night in an empty shelter by the deserted platform.
8 They were savages it was true; but they were human, and the ambushing fears of the deep night were coming on.
9 "Now Piggy can't see, and they came, stealing--" Ralph's voice ran up "--at night, in darkness, and stole our fire."
10 Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality.
11 Then the twins realized they would have a fire near them as a comfort in the night and this set a few littluns dancing and clapping hands.
12 When the green glow had gone from the horizon and night was fully accomplished, Ralph came again to the thicket in front of the Castle Rock.
13 He had reckoned, during the terrible night, on finding at least some of the tribe holding out against the horrors of the island in the safest place.
14 But they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant acting independently, and since staying awake all night was impossible, they had both gone to sleep.
15 Here--and his hands touched grass--was a place to be in for the night, not far from the tribe, so that if the horrors of the supernatural emerged one could at least mix with humans for the time being, even if it meant.