Suzanne Collins: Trending quotes (page 4)

“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

“I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.”

“So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.”

“There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.”

“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”

“Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.”

“Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.”

“It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.”

“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”

“Well, I don't have much competition here."
"You don't have much competition anywhere.”

“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”

“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”

“I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.”

“My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me……..”

“If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?"
"Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive."
"Mockingjays do.”

“I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation… "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.”

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

“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”

“Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.”