1 You know, the high-school girl.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 2 "There was a girl next door," he said, slowly.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 3 The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 4 They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 5 It was not unlike the feeling he had experienced before turning the corner and almost knocking the girl down.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 6 The rain was thinning away and the girl was walking in the center of the sidewalk with her head up and the few drops falling on her face.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 7 He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 8 There was only the girl walking with him now, her face bright as snow in the moonlight, and he knew she was working his questions around, seeking the best answers she could possibly give.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 9 The girl stopped and looked as if she might pull back in surprise, but instead stood regarding Montag with eyes so dark and shining and alive, that he felt he had said something quite wonderful.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 10 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.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 11 What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 12 It would be hard to see her, but her face would be like the face of the girl so long ago in his past now, so very long ago, the girl who had known the weather and never been burned by the fireflies, the girl who had known what dandelions meant rubbed off on your chin.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright