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Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1) QUOTES

Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1) QUOTES

1 " In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language. "

― William Golding , Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)

2 " Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps? "

― William Golding , Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)

3 " Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor", said I, but quietly as the occassion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public". "

― William Golding , Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)

4 " We are motionless. The sea is polished. There is no sky but only a hot whiteness that descends like a curtain in every side, dropping, as it were, even below the horizon and so diminishing the circle of the ocean that is visible to us. The circle itself is of a light an luminescent blue. Now and then some sea creature will shatter the surface and the silence by leaping through it. Yet even when nothing leaps there is a constant shuddering, random twitches and vibrations of the surface, as if the water were not only the home and haunt of all sea creatures but the skin of a living thing, a creature vaster than Leviathan. "

― William Golding , Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)