Golding The Inheritors Quotes & Sayings

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact. — Wallace Stegner

If you only value my advice when I agree with you, you don't value it at all. — John Flanagan

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. — Francis Bacon

As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing. — Euzhan Palcy

I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone. — Demetri Martin

Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world? — William Golding