-"Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's only us."

-"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."

-"The greatest ideas are the simplest."

-"We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?"

-"What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?"

-"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."

-"They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate."