QUOTES- LOTF Flashcards
JACK was the first to make himself heard.
he had not got the conch and thus spoke against the rules, but nobody minded.
Fear can’t hurt you anymore…
Then a dream.
Next time there would be no mercy. He looked around…
Daring them to contradict.
The compulsion to track down…
And kill that was swallowing him up.
And for a minute less a hunter then…
A furtive thing, an ape-like thing among the tangle of trees.
Tried to convey the compulsion…
To track down and Kill that was swallowing him up.
Awesome stranger
Liberated from shame and self-consciousness
This is our Island…
It’s a good island. Until the grown-up’s come to fetch us, we’ll have fun.
Ralph wept for the end of…
Innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy
The world…
That understandable and lawful world was slipping away.
You could, when you went, you read with a kind of tied down terror
Boy’s book of trains, Boy’s book of ships.
The desire to hurt…
and squeeze was over-mastering
I’m frightened. Of us…
I want to go home. O God I want to go home.
The curtain flapped…
In his head and he forgot what he was driving at.
Piggy paused for breath…
and stroked the glistening thing
