Book Eater

“He turned a half pace on the sand. A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with coloured clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach, making no noise at all.

"Fun and games," said the officer.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“It was hard to let go of rage these days. It kept the body warm when hope had become elusive.”
― Julie E. Czerneda, Beholder's Eye

“Scott woke up with a bad need to urinate. Lying motionless, he forced one eye open.”
― Richard Laymon, The Richard Laymon Collection, Volume 4: Beware / Dark Mountain

“And God said,' quoted Mr Leebody, ' "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Very well, then, what are these Children? What are they? The image does not mean the outer image, or every statue would be a man. It means the inner image, the spirit and the soul. But you have told me, and, on the evidence, I came to believe it, that the Children do not have individual spirits - that they have one man-spirit, and one woman-spirit, each far more powerful than we understand, that they share between them. What, then, are they? They cannot be what we know as man, for this inner image is on a different pattern - its likeness is to something else.”
― John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos