Quotes – Page 148 | Just Great DataBase

I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.

If love be rough with you, be rough with love;Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.Give me a case to put my visage in:A visor for a visor! what care IWhat curious eye doth quote deformities?Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.

Can I go forward when my heart is here?

Parting is such sweet sorrow

You’ll get back to where you came from.

This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.

They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it.

Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is?Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

Are we savages or what?

And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.The sacred word:EGO

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone.

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.

Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don’t know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. […]Ralph shouted. Hear him! He’s got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it’s only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human and the ambushing fears of the deep night were coming on.Ralph moaned faintly. Tired though he was, he could not relax and fall into a well of sleep for fear of the tribe. Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. “‘Cos I had some sense.

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

For nothing was simply one thing.

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.