THINGS in Classic Quotes

1  You said you wanted things done.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

2  'Cos things wouldn't make sense.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

3  Strange things happened at midday.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

4  An assembly to put things straight.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

5  "Grownups know things," said Piggy.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

6  I've got to have time to think things out.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

7  Jack had too many things to tell Ralph at once.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

8  We're all drifting and things are going rotten.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

9  Last night I had a dream, a horrid dream, fighting with things.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

10  Piggy was mooning about, aimlessly picking up things and discarding them.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

11  Like things trying to look like something else-- He twisted in the urgency of telling.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

12  You have to have a lot of metal things for that," he said, "and we haven't got no metal.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

13  He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

14  He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

15  The twins shared their identical laughter, then remembered the darkness and other things and glanced round uneasily.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

16  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.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

17  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.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell