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“And how I watched my little sister become a human torch. Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“People don't need wings to survive"
"Mockingjays do.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“Maybe… because for the first time… there was a chance I could keep him,” I say.
“So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?”
“Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.”

Suzanne Collins

“Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“"Oh," I say under my breath. "Tick, tock." My eyes sweep around the full circle of the arena and I know she's right. "Tick, tock. This is a clock."”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss, p. 325
The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
Source: Mockingjay

“They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“She's Prim's size in diameter.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

“The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

“Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you. -Peeta Mellark”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Variant: I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
Source: Catching Fire