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- Montag Reads a Book
- "There's so many books! I 'll remember this one line forever."
- "No, please don't take my books!"
- The Old Woman Burns her House
- "Run! She's lighting the house on fire herself. This crazy lady must really love her books!"
- "I will never let my books go!"
- Montag Hides the Book and Talks with Mildred
- "Do you remember when and how we met?"
- "No, I don't remember where and how we met. Oh, I forgot to tell you that Clarisse was run over by a car."
- "Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering. In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snow feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel. "Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine." He dropped the book. Immediately, another fell into his arms," (37).
- Beatty's Firemen Story
- "Firemen have always been around and we have always burned books."
- "Beatty is trying to talk me into being a fireman again, but I know there is more to my life than burning books."
- "On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless. Beatty flicked his fingers to spark the kerosene. He was too late. Montag gasped. The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match against the railing. People ran out of houses all down the street," (39-40).
- Montag, Mildred, and the Books
- "Mildred, let's see if we can understand anything in these books."
- "What? You've had books all this time, you know it's against the law!"
- "He made more soft sounds. He stumbled toward the bed and shoved the book clumsily under the cold pillow. He fell into bed and his wife cried out, startled. He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air," (41-42).
- Montag Visits Faber for Help
- "That's why I am here, I need your help and fast!"
- "You have the last Bible on the face of the earth! You know, books really are important because of the words that are in them."
- "Beatty puffed his pipe. " 'Every fireman, sooner or later, hits this. They only need understanding, to know how the wheels run. Need to know the history of our profession. They don't feed it to rookies like they used to. Damn shame.' " Puff. " 'Only fire chiefs remember it now.' " Puff. " 'I'll let you in on it.' " "Mildred fidgeted." (53-54).
- "Montag, what is under your pillow?"
- "He took hold of a straight-backed chair and moved it slowly and steadily into the hall near the front door and climbed up on it and stood for a moment like a statue on a pedestal, his wife standing under him, waiting. Then he reached up and pulled back the grille of the air-conditioning system and far back inside to the right and moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book. Without looking at it he dropped it to the floor. He put his hand back up and took out two books and moved his hand down and dropped the two books to the floor," (65).
- "The front door opened slowly. Faber peered out, looking very old in the light and very fragile and very much afraid. The old man looked as if he had not been out of the house in years. He and the white plaster walls inside were much the same. There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there. Then his eyes touched on the book under Montag's arm and he did not look so old any more and not quite as fragile. Slowly his fear went," (80).
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