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41 " This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. "
― William Golding , Lord of the Flies
42 " Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in! "
43 " The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell. "
44 " We're not savages. We're English. "
45 " You'll get back to where you came from. "
46 " The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition. "
47 " Are we savages or what? "
48 " And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. "
49 " He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human. "
50 " They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives. "
51 " You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief! "
52 " If only one had time to think! "
53 " The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone. "
54 " I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe. "
55 " The thing is---fear can't hold you any more than a dream... "
56 " He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear "
57 " Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean. "
58 " We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we? "
59 " The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. "
60 " Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no. "