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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 And sooner or later a ship will put in here.
2 He was uncertain whether to stand up or remain sitting.
3 He hovered between the two courses of apology or further insult.
4 Each party of boys added a quota, less or more, and the pile grew.
5 In the west, and unheeded, the sun lay only an inch or two above the sea.
6 As if," said Simon, "the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was real.
7 They found the end of the island, quite distinct, and not magicked out of shape or sense.
8 Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees.
9 Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.
10 These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air.
11 Either the wandering breezes or perhaps the decline of the sun allowed a little coolness to lie under the trees.
12 Then we'd be, you know, very solemn, and someone would say we ought to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set.
13 He had stood frowing down at a pile of sand on the beach where somebody had been trying to build a little house or hut.
14 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.
15 Some were naked and carrying their clothes; others half-naked, or more or less dressed, in school uniforms, grey, blue, fawn, jacketed, or jerseyed.
16 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.
17 Some act of God--a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival--had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end.
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