Lord of the Flies

“Like kids!” he said scornfully. “Acting like a crowd of kids!” p. 38

"Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch…" p. 38

“I got the conch,” said Piggy indignantly. “You let me speak!” p. 42

"His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination." p. 43

"He paused in the tumult, standing, looking beyond them and down the unfriendly side of the mountain to the great patch where they had found dead wood." p. 43

"By now they were listening to the tirade." p. 45

"The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects." p. 49

"Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail." p. 49

"Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting." p. 49

"Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees." p. 49

"There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider." p. 55

"A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top." p. 56

"The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility." p. 58

"The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry’s right and fell in the water." p. 62

“I can’t see no smoke,” said Piggy incredulously. “I can’t see no smoke, Ralph—where is it?” p. 66

"Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him." p. 69

"Jack, faced at once with too many awful implications, ducked away from them." p. 70

"He looked malevolently at Jack." p. 71

"He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet." p. 76

"Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so foreign to him." p. 78

"But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains." p. 78

"Piggy tiptoed to the triangle, his ineffectual protest made, and joined the others." p. 79

"A sound, half-laugh, half-jeer, rose among the seated boys." p. 84

"Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness." p. 89

"A single sea bird flapped upwards with a hoarse cry that was echoed presently, and something squawked in the forest." p. 99

"The circle of boys before him bristled with hunting spears." p. 100

“Let’s be moving,” said Jack relentlessly, “we’re wasting time.” p. 101

"Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar." p. 105

"The clamor broke out. Some of the boys wanted to go back to the beach. Some wanted to roll more rocks." p. 108

"Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering." p. 108