LOTF

"I was the only boy in our school what had asthma,' said the fat boy with a touch of pride." - Piggy C1

"Sucks to your ***-mar!" - Ralph to Piggy C1

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"There was a mildness about the mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil." - re Ralph C1

"We got to find the others. We got to do something." - Piggy C1

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"A conch; ever so expensive." - Piggy C1

"His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the harsh note of the conch." re Ralph C1

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"He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew's voice." - Piggy re The Choir C1

"You're talking too much...Shut up, Fatty." - Jack to Piggy C1

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"The enormity of the knife descending & cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood." - why Jack didn't stab the piglet C1

"We'll have to have 'Hands up' like at school." - Ralph in a meeting C2

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"I'll give the conch to the nest person to speak .... he won't be interrupted." - Ralph, meeting C2

"A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it." - Piggy speaking for mulberry mark boy re The Beast C2

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"But there isn't a beastie!" - Ralph C2

"with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children." - Piggy C2

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"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages." - Ralph C2

"less a hunter than a furtive thing; ape-like among the tangle of trees." - re Jack C3

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"The compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up." - re Jack C3

"Rescue!? Yes of course! All the same I'd like to catch a pig first - " - Jack re rescue C3

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"Darkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher." - C4

"They were used now to stomach aches and a sort of chronic diarrhoea." - C4

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"Invisible yet strong was the taboo of the old life...the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law." - Roger re Henry C4

"the mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciouness." - re Jack C4

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"Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood." - hunters C4

"We decide things but they don't get done." - Ralph, meeting C4

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"To Ralph this seemed the breaking up of sanity." - Raplh re Beast talk C5

"******** to the rules! We're strong - we hunt!" - Jack C5

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"If Jack was chief we'd have all hunting and no fire. We'd be here till we died." - Piggy to Ralph C5

"If your scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him." - Piggy C5

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"Grown-ups know things... They aint afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss." - Piggy C5

"We don't need the conch anymore... It's time some people knew they've got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us." - Jack C5

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"Simon though of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." - Simon C5

"The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering." - re Robert pretending to be pig C7

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'Something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees." - re Beast C7

"He's not a hunter.... He isn't a prefect and we don't know anything about him." - Jack re Ralph C8

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"The pressure of the assembly took his voice away." - Piggy, meeting C8

'It's them that haven't no common sense that make trouble on this island." - Piggy C8

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"They were black and iridescent green and without number." - The Flies C8

"Demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out howling." - The Tribe C8

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"The head grinning amusedly in the strange daylight, ignoring the flies, the spilled guts." - The LOTF C8

"He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint." - re Jack C8

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"Fancy thinking a beast was something you could kill." - LOTF C8

"Piggy once more was the centre of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal." - re Piggy C9

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"no words, no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws." - re how Simon is murdered C9

"That was murder." - Ralph C10

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"They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought." - re Samneric and Ralph C11

"You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!" - Ralph re Jack C11

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What's grown-ups goin' to think? - Piggy C11 after Si's murder

"if he gets waxy we've had it" - Sam C11 regarding Jack

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"Which is better - to have rules and agree or to hunt and kill?" - Piggy C11 shortly before he dies

"This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt." - Ralph re Bill one of the boys C12

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"He forgot his wound his hunger and his thirst and became fear; hopeless fear." - about Ralph as he tries to escape the boys hunting him C12

"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of a man's heart and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." - C12

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