Salt

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again.

- LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING

Angels

Each of them wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.

- LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING

Worlds

There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense.

- LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING

I recently read Lord of the Flies and it was...perfect. Lord of the Flies week (or month...or life...) starts from today.

Dust

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from the dust whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

- THE SHADOW OF THE WIND BY CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

Lonely

He drew hypodermics, one after another. His pen pressed harder and harder as he colored in the embalming fluid inside, as he perfected the trajectory of the three drops squirting out.
Lonely, I thought, on Earth as it is in heaven.

- THE LOVELY BONES BY ALICE SEBOLD

Books

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

- MARK TWAIN

Heaven

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.

- MARK TWAIN