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“But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self destruction.
Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“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……..”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (pp. 8)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: 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. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead...

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games