CHILDREN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Even the tiny children went and did their best among the leaves and broken branches.
2 The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the men with megaphones.
3 Sometimes land loomed where there was no land and flicked out like a bubble as the children watched.
4 Just now he was being obedient because he was interested; and the three children, kneeling in the sand, were at peace.
5 Three small children, no older than Johnny, appeared from startlingly close at hand, where they had been gorging fruit in the forest.
6 The children who came along the beach, singly or in twos, leapt into visibility when they crossed the line from heat haze to nearer sand.
7 The afternoon sun slanted in from the other side of the platform and most of the children, feeling too late the smart of sunburn, had put their clothes on.
8 On his right were most of the choir; on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before the evacuation; before him small children squatted in the grass.
9 Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar.