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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Simon, forgetful of the flies, shaded his eyes with both hands and peered at the smoke.
2 Then he climbed the edge of the platform and sat in the green shade on a convenient trunk.
3 Ralph shaded his eyes and followed the jagged outline of the crags up toward the mountain.
4 Yet no one made a sound; and as the minutes passed, in the green shade, his feeling of triumph faded.
5 Ralph climbed out of the bathing pool and trotted up the beach and sat in the shade beneath the palms.
6 It was a white-topped cap, and above the green shade of the peak was a crown, an anchor, gold foliage.
7 The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees.
8 Henry walked at a distance from the palms and the shade because he was too young to keep himself out of the sun.
9 Jack took up a coconut shell that brimmed with fresh water from among a group that was arranged in the shade, and drank.
10 Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake--blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple.
11 Ralph hauled himself onto this platform, noted the coolness and shade, shut one eye, and decided that the shadows on his body were really green.
12 When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.
13 Their heads clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy, mouse-colored; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and speculated.
14 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.