The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve like a star.
The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble...
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
We're not savages. We're English.
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
Ralph...would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
What did it mean? A stick sharpened at both ends. What was there in that?
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
You'll get back to where you came from
The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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