✧ hayley (the sugar bowl) ✧'s Reviews > Fahrenheit 451

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╰┈➤ “do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”

honestly i wasn’t sure about this in the beginning but im going to say a solid 4 stars honestly!!

i don’t know if this type of dystopian is 100% my genre but usually but this was really interesting and it definitely made me think. there were so many good quotes from other works of literature like this—

╰┈➤ “the folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us”
~ paul valery

we love!! and also so many of this author’s quotes were chef kiss. like i started writing them down halfway through and wow like—

╰┈➤ “a book is a loaded gun."

╰┈➤ “play the man, master ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in england, as i trust shall never be put out."

╰┈➤ “now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself, he set out in a steady jogging pace.”

╰┈➤ “they have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them.”

╰┈➤ “you must remember, burn them or they'll burn you, he thought. right now it's as simple as that.”

╰┈➤ “…and there, in the wilderness, the men all moved their hands, putting out the fire together”

╰┈➤ “‘stuff your eves with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. it's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.’“

╰┈➤ “man, when i was younger i shoved my ignorance in people's faces. they beat me with sticks. by the time i was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. if you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

╰┈➤ ”you always said, don’t face the problem, burn it. well, now I’ve done both. goodbye captain.”

╰┈➤ ”he was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground.”

╰┈➤ ”’it doesn't matter what you do,’ he said, ‘so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. the difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching,’ he said. ‘the lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there lifetime.’"

and yeah i’ll stop now you get the point!! i didn’t particularly care about any of the characters but it was definitely thought provoking and i kept comparing it to vfd (asoue girlies where you at!!)

anyways not mad i read this and even though it wasn’t my absolute favorite i ended up enjoying it a lot and it was probably so important then and definitely so important now!!


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