Suzanne Collins Quotes

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.”

“It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.”

“Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.”

“Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.”

“What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.”

“Doors are for those who lack enemies.”

“The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred.”

“But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.”

“My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.”

“The odds are never in our favour.”

“And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. “Don’t do that,” I say. “What? Come up or stay under?” he says. “Either. Neither. Whatever”

“That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family.”

“I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.”

“Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.”

“This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.”

“I'm not good at talking about myself.”

“For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.”

“The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

“We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared”

“Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour!”

“And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.”

“Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair”

“i can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.”

“Do you really know what's going on And if you don't… find out”

“I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.”

“Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?'
'You could wring me out,' I reply.
Cinna puts his arm around my shoulder and leads me into lunch. ' Don't worry, I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself.”

“Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.”

“I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.”

“Warmblood now a bloodborne death,
Will rob your body of it's breath
Mark your skin and seal your fate
The Underland becomes a plate”

“I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.”

“Smiling is mostly about smiling more.”

“That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.”

“It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread.”

“He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.”

“To tell or not to tell?”

“And did you love me?”