Suzanne Collins: Trending quotes (page 14)

“I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.”

“Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.”

“What happens when we get back?
I don't know. I guess we try and forget.
I don't want to forget.”

“Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.”

“Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?”

“Fly you high.”

“Anything else?"

Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting… I ate your lunch.”

“Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.”

“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”

“The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”

“Please feel free to take this personally.”

“Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”

“I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.”

“Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.”

“Twirl for me.”

“His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.”

“Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.”

“Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.”

“In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.”