The Pyramid Quotes

“I want the truth of things. But there's nowhere to find it.”
― William Golding, The Pyramid

“I had never met the Roman Catholuc Church outside of a history book. To come across it living, so to speak, was like finding a diplodocus.”
― William Golding, The Pyramid

“Some things need no study, no learning, no repetition in pursuit of memory. They burn themselves into the eye and can be examined ever after in minute detail. Moreover it is their nature - as we cannot even think, without leaving a mark somewhere on the cosmos - to bring with them their own inescapable interpretation.”
― William Golding, The Pyramid

“You wouldn't care if I was dead. Nobody'd care. That's all you want, just my damned body, not me. Nobody wants me, just my damned body. And I'm damned and you're damned with your cock and your cleverness and your chemistry-”
― William Golding, The Pyramid

“You never loved me, nobody never loved me. I wanted to be loved, I wanted somebody to be kind to me - I wanted-" She wanted tenderness. So did I; but not from her. She was no part of high fantasy and worship and hopeless jealousy. She was the accessible thing.”
― William Golding, The Pyramid

“What is like chemistry?"
"Well. Life."
"It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...”
― William Golding, The Pyramid

“I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to be clean and sweet. It was as if this object of frustration and desire had suddenly acquired the attributes of a person rather than a thing...”
― William Golding, The Pyramid