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You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
“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.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
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