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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.
2 The old exasperation saved him and gave him the energy to attack.
3 The shape of the old assembly, trodden in the grass, listened to him.
4 He was happy and wore the damp darkness of the forest like his old clothes.
5 The usual brightness was gone from his eyes and he walked with a sort of glum determination like an old man.
6 He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark.
7 I mean I'd sooner have water from that place-- you know, the pool where the waterfall is--than out of an old coconut shell.
8 He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward.
9 He was also a distant relative of that other boy whose mulberry-marked face had not been seen since the evening of the great fire; but he was not old enough to understand this, and if he had been told that the other boy had gone home in an aircraft, he would have accepted the statement without fuss or disbelief.