It is Clarisse who says "we're most peculiar" in Fahrenheit 451. To put this quote into context, she is referring to the members of her family who are very different from the other characters portrayed in the novel.
Directly preceding this quote, for instance, Montag is confused as to why all of the lights in her house are on, considering the late time of night. Clarisse responds that her mother, father and uncle are "sitting around, talking," a response which perplexes Montag:
"But what do you talk about?"
Clarisse and her family are free-thinkers and non-conformist. They continue to live an existence based on the past, before books were banned and society was chiefly concerned with providing entertainment. As a result, Clarisse recognises that her family appears "peculiar" to outsiders but, in reality, they represent life before censorship and totalitarian government.
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