'I'm scared of him [Jack],' 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 alright really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breath. I tell you what. He hates you too, Ralph -' 'Me? Why me?' 'I dunno. You got him over the fire; an' you're chief an' he isn't.' 'But he's Jack Merridew!' 'I been in bed so much I done some thinking. I know about people. I know about me. And him. He can't hurt you: but if you're standing out of the way he'd hurt the next thing. And that's me.' [Simon?] 'Piggy's right, Ralph. There's you and Jack. Go on being chief.'

'The rules!' shouted Ralph, 'you're breaking the rules!' 'Who cares?' Ralph summoned his wits. 'Because the rules are the only thing we've got!' But Jack was s…

However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.

Jack stood up as he said this, the bloodied knife in his hand. The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilar…

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Don't worry about those Jewish bastards. You'll soon be on your way up the chimney and your troubles will be over.

If I fear anything, I fear the atmosphere of the war, the power which it gives to all the things I hate - the newspapers, the politicians, the puritans, the sc…