Suzanne Collins: Trending quotes (page 18)

“Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.”

“All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.”

“turn and turn and turn again
you see the what, but not the when
remedy and wrong entwine
and so they form a single vine”

“Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?"

"Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.”

“Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female…
I am going back into the arena.”

“Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.”

“I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.”

“I know. I was hoping," I say.
"Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch.
I don't argue because, of course, he's right.”

“Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!”

“I don't like self-righteous people," I say.

"What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.”

“I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.”

“You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.”

“I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.”

“I wonder how she'll make up her mind."
"Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”

“I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.”

“For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta”

“He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.”

“But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.”

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”