1. “They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.” ― William Golding
2. “Thought was a valuable thing, that got results.” ― William Golding
3. “But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don’t take you’ll die – you would, wouldn’t you?” ― William Golding
4. “Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.” ― William Golding
5. “He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.” ― William Golding
6. “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” ― William Golding
7. “The mask was a thing … behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.” ― William Golding
8. “He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.” ― William Golding
9. “Whoever has the conch gets to speak at assembley.” ― William Golding
10. “The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.” ― William Golding
11. “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” ― William Golding
12. “The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.” ― William Golding
13. “So the last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of deciding on the fear. We’ve got to talk about this fear and decide there’s nothing in it.” ― William Golding
14. “The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.” ― William Golding
15. “Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened.” ― William Golding
16. “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.” ― William Golding
17. “There aren’t any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves” ― William Golding
18. “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone.” ― William Golding
19. “Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?” ― William Golding
20. “The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.” ― William Golding
21. “He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear” ― William Golding
22. “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.” ― William Golding
23. “As long as there’s light we’re brave enough” ― William Golding
24. “We’re not savages. We’re English.” ― William Golding
25. “Ralph wept for the end of innocence.” ― William Golding
26. “I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.” ― William Golding
27. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.” ― William Golding
28. “There is nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but – being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.” ― William Golding
29. “People don’t help much.’ He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.” ― William Golding
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