"Montag gave him the book. 'It's been a long time. I'm not a religious man. But it's been a longtime.' Faber turned the pages, stopping here and there to read. 'It's as good as I remember' (Bradbury 77). Faber is showing how long the city has been living without books. That has impacted how people feel and view things in the world.
" 'Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back.I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the `guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now, it's too late' " (Bradbury 78). Faber showed that he had been a coward for not showing his love for books when he was younger and was mad at himself for not standing up for what he loved.
" 'It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself.' Faber glanced nervously at his bedroom door. 'To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason' " (Bradbury 82). Montag and Faber come up with a plan to set all the firehouses on fire so the fireman would know what it felt like to lose something so important to them.