Suzanne Collins: Trending quotes

“Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.”

Source: Mockingjay

“Why… do you find this… distracting?”

Source: Mockingjay

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

Variant: Do you find this... distracting?
Source: Mockingjay

“Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you!”

Source: Catching Fire

“The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.”

Source: The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Marks of Secret

Source: Gregor and the Marks of Secret

“And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.”

“I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.”

Source: Catching Fire

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm

The final lines are barely audible.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.”

Katniss Everdeen, Rue's song, p. 235
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

“Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous…”

Source: Mockingjay

“I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.”

Source: Mockingjay

“I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.”

Source: Mockingjay

“It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.”

Source: Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.”

“Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.”

Variant: Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
Source: Mockingjay