Fahrenheit 451: Who said it?

"The rain feels good. I love to walk in it ... Rain even tastes good."

Clarisse, pg. 19

" ... it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you."

Clarisse, pg. 21

"Have you ever smelled old leaves? Don't they smell like cinnamon?"

Clarisse, pg. 26

"I'm afraid of childen my own age. They kill each other."

Clarisse, pg. 27

"People don't talk about anything."

Clarisse, pg. 28

"Well, I'm seventeen and I'm crazy."

Clarisse, pg. 5

"Are you happy?"

Clarisse, pg. 7

"Bet I know something else you don't. There's dew on the grass in the morning."

Clarisse, pg. 7

"Welcome back ... I hope you'll be staying with us, now that your fever is done and sickness over."

Beatty, pg. 101

"Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff."

Beatty, pg. 102

"You'll be fine. This is a special case."

Beatty, pg. 105

"Now you did it. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his d@#$ wings, he wonders why."

Beatty, pg. 107

"I want you to do this job all by your lonesome ... Not with kerosene and a match, but piecework, with a flame thrower. Your house, your clean-up."

Beatty, pg. 109

"When you're quite finished, you're under arrest."

Beatty, pg. 111

"Why don't you belch Shakespeare at me you fumbling snob? ... Go ahead now you second-hand literateur, pull the trigger."

Beatty, pg. 113

"You got a guilty conscience or something?"

Beatty, pg. 25

"You got some [books]?"

Beatty, pg. 31

"You know the law. Where's your common sense? None of these books agree with each other."

Beatty, pg. 35

"When did it all start, this job of ours, how did it come about, where, when?"

Beatty, pg. 51

"Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more."

Beatty, pg. 52

" ... the word 'intellectual', of course, became the swear word it deserved to be."

Beatty, pg. 55

"Clarisse McClellan? We've a record on her family. We've watched them carefully."

Beatty, pg. 57

"I've read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing."

Beatty, pg. 59

"But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority."

Faber, pg. 104

"I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago."

Faber, pg. 125

"I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive."

Faber, pg. 71

"Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land?"

Faber, pg. 78

"How did you get shaken up? What knocked the torch out of your hands?"

Faber, pg. 78

"Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion."

Faber, pg. 79

"Let's listen to this Captain Beatty together. He could be one of us."

Faber, pg. 87

"Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now ..."

Mildred, pg. 108

"How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in?"

Mildred, pg. 18

"She's [the woman with the books] nothing to me; she shouldn't have had books."

Mildred, pg. 48

"It's fun out in the country, you hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs."

Mildred, pg. 61

"Now my 'family' is people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh! And the colors!"

Mildred, pg. 69

"That reminds me. Did you see that Clara Dove five-minute romance last night on your wall?"

Mildred, pg. 91

"Why, we've stopped in front of my house."

Montag, pg. 106

"My God how did this happen? It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know I'm drowning."

Montag, pg. 124

"When I leave, burn the spread of this bed that I touched. Burn the chair in the living room in your wall incinerator. Wipe down the furniture with alcohol, wipe the doorknobs. Burn the throw-rug in the parlor. Turn on the air-conditioning on full in all the rooms and spray moth spray if you have it. Then, turn on your lawn sprinklers as high as they'll go and hose off the sidewalks."

Montag, pg. 129

"I don't know anything anymore."

Montag, pg. 15

"I've tried to imagine just how it would feel. I mean to have firemen burn our houses and our books."

Montag, pg. 31

"Kerosene, it nothing but perfume to me."

Montag, pg. 4

"We burned a thousand books. We burned a woman."

Montag, pg. 47

"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."

Montag, pg. 48

"I'm so mad, and I don't know why ... I might even start reading books."

Montag, pg. 62

"We've got to start somewhere here, figuring out why we're in such a mess ..."

Montag, pg. 63

"My wife's dying. A friend of mine's already dead. Someone who may have been a friend was burnt less than twenty-four hours ago."

Montag, pg. 77

"Nobody listens anymore. 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."

Montag, pg. 78

"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively know was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help."

Montag, pg. 78

"I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it's not bad at all. You just heave them into the 'parlor' and turn on the switch. It's like washing clothes; stuff the laundry in and slam the lid."

Mrs. Bowles, pgs. 92-93