Fahrenheit

1. Fahrenheit Part One Quotes

2. “There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that’s too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!”

3. “You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you.”

4. “He walked toward the corner, thinking little at all about nothing in particular.”

5. “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.”

6. “Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It’s like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time—did I tell you?—for being a pedestrian. Oh, we’re most peculiar.”

7. “I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.”

8. “He opened the bedroom door. It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set.”

9. "She's nothing to me; she shouldn't have had books. It was her responsibility, she should've thought of that. I hate her. She's got you going and next thing you know we'll be out, no house, no job, nothing."

10. “People don’t talk about anything. . . . They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”

11. “[T]he flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house.”

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