THE HOUSE in Classic Quotes

1  He went back through the house.

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

2  Doors slammed and the house was empty.

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

3  He walked out of the house into the rain.

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

4  As he stood there the sky over the house screamed.

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

5  The sight of it rushed the men out and down away from the house.

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

6  The old man looked as if he had not been out of the house in years.

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

7  Outside the house, a shadow moved, an autumn wind rose up and faded away.

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

8  And as many times he came out of the house and Clarisse was there somewhere in the world.

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

9  Montag still sat, as if the house were collapsing about him and he could not move, in the bed.

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

10  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

11  All of those chemical balances and percentages on all of us here in the house are recorded in the master file downstairs.

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

12  The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness.

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

13  Laughter blew across the moon-colored lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and mother and the uncle who smiled so quietly and so earnestly.

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

14  He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house.

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

15  Montag and Beatty stared, one with dry satisfaction, the other with disbelief, at the house before them, this main ring in which torches would be juggled and fire eaten.

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

16  Above all, their laughter was relaxed and hearty and not forced in any way, coming from the house that was so brightly lit this late at night while all the other houses were kept to themselves in darkness.

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

17  They were like a monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes, he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house, and now they were screaming at each other above the din.

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