Lord of the Flies: William Golding
1. “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.”
2. “We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
Lost Horizons: James Hilton
1. “Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue”
2. “The will of God or the lunacy of man — it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought of it as he contemplated the small orderliness of the cabin against the window background of such frantic natural scenery), the will of man and the lunacy of God. It must be satisfying to be quite certain which way to look at it.”
The Giver: Lois Lowry
1.“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
2. “…now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow – moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going”
Ecotopia:Ernest Callenbach
1. “But what matters most is the aspiration to live in balance with nature, “walk lightly on the land,” treat the earth as a mother.”