BEHIND in Classic Quotes

1  Mildred's hand had frozen behind the pillow.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

2  The fireworks died in the parlor behind Mildred.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

3  "When you're quite finished," said Beatty behind him.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

4  He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

5  Now Beatty was almost invisible, a voice somewhere behind a screen of smoke.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

6  And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

7  He searched the house and found the books where Mildred had stacked them behind the refrigerator.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

8  It carried its silence with it, so you could feel the silence building up a pressure behind you all across town.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

9  The other firemen waited behind him, in the darkness, their faces illumined faintly by the smoldering foundation.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

10  But Montag did not move and only stood thinking of the ventilator grill in the hall at home and what lay hidden behind the grill.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

11  The tick of the playing cards on the greasy table top, all the sounds came to Montag, behind his closed eyes, behind the barrier he had momentarily erected.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

12  He stood looking up at the ventilator grill in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grill, something that seemed to peer down at him now.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

13  Now, the dry smell of hay, the motion of the waters, made him think of sleeping in fresh hay in a lonely barn away from the loud highways, behind a quiet farmhouse, and under an ancient windmill that whirred like the sound of the passing years overhead.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

14  Montag made sure the book was well hidden behind the pillow, climbed slowly back into bed, arranged the covers over his knees and across his chest, half-sitting, and after a while Mildred moved and went out of the room and Captain Beatty strolled in, his hands in his pockets.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

15  Beatty never drove, but he was driving tonight, slamming the Salamander around corners, leaning forward high on the driver's throne, his massive black slicker flapping out behind so that he seemed a great black bat flying above the engine, over the brass numbers, taking the full wind.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

16  He felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

17  He remembered a farm he had visited when he was very young, one of the rare few times he discovered that somewhere behind the seven veils of unreality, beyond the walls of parlors and beyond the tin moat of the city, cows chewed grass and pigs sat in warm ponds at noon and dogs barked after white sheep on a hill.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright