lord of the flies key quotes

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chapter 1
‘The boy with fair hair lowered himself down’
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chapter 1
‘The long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat’
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chapter 1
‘He became conscious of the weight of his clothes, kicked his shoes off fiercely and ripped off each stocking’
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‘There was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil’
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‘I don’t care what they call me, so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school’
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chapter 1
‘A golden light danced and shattered just over his face’
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‘He’s a commander in the Navy. When he gets home he’ll come and rescue us’
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‘We may stay here till we die’
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‘The heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence’
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‘It’s ever so valuable’
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‘Shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern’
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‘The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the men with megaphones’
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‘As the echoes died away so did the laughter, and there was silence’
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‘Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along’
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‘The creature was a party of boys’
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‘His hair was red beneath the black cap’ ‘Ugly without silliness’
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‘Wearily obedient’
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‘For a moment the boys were a closed unit of sympathy with Piggy outside’
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‘I ought to be chief... because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp’
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‘Let’s have a vote’
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‘This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch’
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‘The delicate thing’
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‘Jack and Ralph smiled at each other with shy liking’
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chapter 1
‘The great rock… lept droning through the air and smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest’
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‘The forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster’
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‘Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savoured the right of domination. They were lifted up: were friends’
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chapter 1
‘They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood’
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chapter 2
‘All at once he found he could talk fluently and explain what he had to say’
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chapter 2
‘We’ll have rules!’ he cried excitedly. ‘Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks em-’
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chapter 2
‘This is our island. It’s a good island.’
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chapter 2
‘Cradling the great cream shell’
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chapter 2
‘Let him have the conch!’ Shouted Piggy’
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chapter 2
‘He says it was a beastie’
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chapter 2
‘ A snake-like thing. Ever so big’
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chapter 2
‘But there isn’t a beastie!’
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chapter 2
‘There isn’t a snake-thing. But if there was we’d hunt and kill it’
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‘This simple statement, unbacked by any proof but the weight of Ralph’s new authority, brought light and happiness’
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chapter 2
‘Acting like a crowd of kids!’
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chapter 2
‘The martyred expression of a parent’
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chapter 2
‘They grinned at each other, sharing this burden’
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chapter 2
‘Life became a race with the fire’
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chapter 2
‘On one side the air was cool, but on the other the fire thrust out a savage arm of heat’
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chapter 2
‘The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain’
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chapter 2
‘The delicate thing’
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chapter 2
‘After all, we’re not savages. We’re English and the English are best at everything’
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chapter 2
‘The flames, as though they were a kind of wildlife, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly’
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chapter 2
‘Piggy glanced nervously into Hell’
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chapter 2
‘The unfriendly side of the mountain’
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chapter 3
‘Dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours’
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chapter 3
‘Eyes that… seemed bolting and nearly mad’
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chapter 3
‘The compulsion to track down and kill was swallowing him up’
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chapter 3
‘As if it wasn’t a good island’
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chapter 3
‘You can feel as if you’re not hunting, but, being hunted’
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chapter 3
‘He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were’
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chapter 3
‘Simon’s always about’
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chapter 3
‘He’s queer. He’s funny’
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chapter 3
‘Two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate’
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chapter 3
‘Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach’
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chapter 4
‘Roger led the way straight through the castles’ ‘Maurice followed, laughing, and added to the destruction’
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chapter 4
‘Threw it to miss’
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chapter 4
‘Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law’
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chapter 4
‘Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins’
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chapter 4
‘He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger’
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chapter 4
‘He began to laugh and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling’
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chapter 4
‘The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness’
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chapter 4
‘Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent… but by fat, and ***-mar, and specs’
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chapter 4
‘They let the bloody fire out’
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chapter 4
‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood’
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‘I cut the pig’s throat’ said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it’
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chapter 4
‘’They had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink’
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chapter 4
‘There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and common sense’
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chapter 4
‘Jack looked around for understanding but found only respect’
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chapter 5
'If you were chief you had to think, you had to be wise'
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chapter 5
'Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains'
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chapter 5
'Ralph felt a kind of affectionate reverance for the conch'
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chapter 5
'Things are breaking up. I don't understand why'
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chapter 5
'Percival Wemys Madison, The Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, Hants, telephone, tele-'
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'unknown indigo of infinite possibility'
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'What I mean is, maybe it's only us'
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'Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness'
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'What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?'
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'I'm chief. I was chosen.' 'Why should choosing make any difference?'
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'The rules are the only thing we've got!'
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chapter 5
'******** to the rules!'
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chapter 5
'A dense black mass that revolved'
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chapter 5
'At home there was always a grown-up... How I wish!'
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chapter 6
'A sign came down from the world of grown-ups... there was a sudden bright explosion and a corkscrew trail across the sky; then darkness again and stars'
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chapter 6
'We don't need the conch any more'
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chapter 6
'Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering'
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chapter 7
'You'll get back alright'
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chapter 7
'The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering'
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chapter 7
'A creature that bulged'
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chapter 8
'He's like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief'
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chapter 8
'I'm not going to play any longer, not with you'
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chapter 8
'Sharpen a stick at both ends'
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chapter 8
'The head is for the beast. It's a gift'
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chapter 8
'Being savages... must be jolly good fun'
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chapter 8
'Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew didn't you? I'm part of you?'
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chapter 8
'Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened the lord'
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chapter 9
'The crowd surged'
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chapter 9
'Screamed, struck, bit, tore'
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chapter 9
‘The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness’
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chapter 9
'The rain ceased... so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars'
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chapter 10
'That was murder'
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chapter 10
'Rodger admired. 'He's a proper chief isn't he?'
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chapter 11
'You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody theif'
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chapter 11
'The conch exploeded into a thosand white fragments'
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chapter 11
'Stuff came out and turned red'
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chapter 12
'Fiercely he hit out at the filthy thing in front of him'
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chapter 12
'They were savages, it was true, but they were human'
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chapter 12
'Ralph screamed, a scream of fright and anger and desperation'
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chapter 12
'White topped cap... white drill'
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chapter 12
'I should have thought that a pack of British boys... would have been able to put up a better show than that'
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chapter 12
'Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's hezrt, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy'
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