• "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed." (1)
• "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." (9)
• "Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed towards morning." (10) Montag
• "Fire is bright and fire is clean." Beatty (57)

TWO - The Sieve and The Sand

• "The magic is only in what the books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."(79) Faber
• "... those who don't build, must burn. It's as old as history..."

Three - Burning Bright