“A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.”

“Death will be like that. We will be forever recognizing people we have never met.”

“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”

“A book is like the best friend you can imagine. Once you read a book, it stays with you forever.”

“Montag, falling flat, going down, saw or felt, or imagined he saw or felt the walls go dark in Millie's face, heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, all by itself in the room, touching nothing, starved and eating of itself, that at last she recognized it was her own...”

“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”