LOTF Quotes

  • "Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood."

  • "Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong—we hunt!

  • “If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat—"

  • "The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness."

  • "We’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything." - Jack

William Goldings Quotes:

  • “It was simply what seemed sensible for me to write after the war when everyone was thanking God they weren’t Nazis. I’d seen enough to realise that every single one of us could be Nazis”

  • “I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.”