Fahrenheit 451 Quotes With Page Numbers

Fear of doing the same thing and being the same person as everyone else drove Montag to try and bring books back.
Montag meets Clarisse a few pages in and immediately starts to realize what he’s missing. He doesn’t seem to mind too much that he’s missing the big things, but rather that he didn’t realize the face of the moon, or dew on the grass. ““Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet long? But cars started rushing by so quickly they had to stretch the advertising out so it would last.” “I didn’t know that!” Montag laughed abruptly. “Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.” He (Montag) suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable.” -Page 7
Montag

(First example) He seems to be aware of the fact that wherever Clarisse is, nature is there as well. Both of these quote bits are taken from the same page, but before and after he sees Clarisse. “Each time he made the turn, he saw only the white, unused, buckling sidewalk, with perhaps, on one night, something vanishing swiftly across a lawn before he could focus his eyes or speak.” - Page 3. The corner is bland and boring, nothing to really catch his eye, but, a paragraph later; “The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward, Her head was half bent to watch her shoes stir the circling leaves. Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity.” -Page 3. This is so much more of a lively flow of words. It makes the moment he sees her seem like a Hallmark Christmas scene where the music swells when someone sees a girl leaning against the corner of a building at night with the streetlight making it seem like she’s glowing. The way Bradbury wrote this gave her so much life to picture and that’s not something that Montag is used