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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 "Put on green branches," said Maurice.
2 He had some white stones too, an a bird cage with a green parrot.
3 All the shadows on Ralph's face were reversed; green above, bright below from the lagoon.
4 Then he climbed the edge of the platform and sat in the green shade on a convenient trunk.
5 Piggy appeared again, sat on the rocky ledge, and watched Ralph's green and white body enviously.
6 These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air.
7 The bushes were dark evergreen and aromatic and the many buds were waxen green and folded up against the light.
8 If we see a ship out there"--they followed the direction of his bony arm with their eyes--"we'll put green branches on.
9 Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake--blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple.
10 The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.
11 The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themlves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.
12 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.
13 But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be dark green.
14 There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.
15 Then he leapt back on the terrace, pulled off his shirt, and stood there among the skull-like coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin.
16 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.
17 On either side rocks, cliffs, treetops and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent, tree-clad, with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail.
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