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Narrator/Guy, kerosene being a daily smell
“Kerosene…. is nothing but perfume to me”
Guy, official slogan
“Monday burn millay, wednesday whitman, friday faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.”
Clarisse, uncle
“My uncle was arrested another time - did I tell you? - for being a pedestrian”
Narrator, smile never going away
“That smile, it never went away, as long as he remembered”
Clarisse, everyone’s the same
“They all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”
Narrator, mirror images of montag
“Had he ever seen a fireman that didn’t have black hair, black brows, a fiery face, and a blue-steel shaved but unshaved look? These men were all mirror images of himself!”
Beatty, government controls society
“Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.”
Guy, empathy
“Just how it would feel. I mean to have firemen burn our houses and our books”
Clarisse, firemen used to do what?
“Suddenly it seemed a much younger voice was speaking for him. He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying ‘Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going’”
Narrator / Rules
Rule 1. Answer the alarm swiftly
2. Start the fire swiftly
3. Burn everything
4. Report back to firehouse immediately
5. Stand alert for other alarms.
Montag, people in books
“The people in those books never lived”
Narrator, montag knowing mildred
“And suddenly she was so strange he couldn't believe he knew her at all”
Narrator, guy not crying if mildred died
“Then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry.”
Mildred, talking about clarisse
“I think she’s dead
Montag, firemen burning themselves
“Maybe it would be best if the firemen themselves were burnt”
Narrator, montag reading books
“He spoke the words haltingly and with a terrible self-consciousness. He read a dozen pages here and there.”
Montag, old smile
“The old burnt in smile, that’s gone. I’m lost without it.”
Montag, nobody listens
“Nobody listens any more. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.”
Mrs Phelps, men dying
“ I’ve never known any dead man killed in war. Killed jumping off buildings, yes like gloria's husband last week, but from wars? No”
Mildred, telling guy to read
“A fly stirred its wings softly in his ear. Read”
Narrator, beatty dying
“Beatty wanted to die”
Narrator, people burning each other
“You must remember, burn them or they’ll burn you.”
Montag, people killing him
“For no reason at all in the world they would have killed me”
Montag, silent field about mildred
“So much silence, Millie, I wonder how you’d take it? Would you shout Shut up, shut up!”
Narrator, montag smiling
“When he thought to test it, was half a smile”
Narrator, government can’t admit it
“They can’t admit it”
Narrator, government do anything to cover up
“And today it turns out, it’s very usable indeed. It saves face”
Granger, city not caring
“The city has never cared so much about us to bother with an elaborate chase like this to find us”
Narrator, book by cover
“Don't judge a book by its cover”
Montag, mildred dying
“Even if she dies, I realized a moment ago, I don’t think I’ll feel sad.”
Montag, thinking of Mildred
“They just hang there at her sides or they lie there on her lap or there’s a cigarette in them, but that’s all”
Granger/montag
“what did the others give to each other?
Nothingness”
Granger, lifting skull
“but if you lifted my skull, by god, in the convolutions of my brain you’d find the big ridges of his thumbprint”
Narrator, Mildred leaning into walls to die
“Leaning into the wall as if all of the hunger of looking would find the secret of her sleepless unease there.”
