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Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She is known as the author of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy.



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Suzanne Collins Quotes

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

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

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“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.”

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.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

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

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

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“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.”

Suzanne Collins

“Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

Source: Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

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

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Doors are for those who lack enemies.”

Suzanne Collins

“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.”

Suzanne Collins

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“The odds are never in our favour.”

Suzanne Collins

“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”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Suzanne Collins

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Suzanne Collins

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008), p. 194
Context: I enter a nightmare from which I wake repeatedly only to find a greater terror awaiting me. All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can’t help but believe they're real. Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't. It's only the beginning of a new chapter of torture. How many ways do I watch Prim die? Relive my father's last moments? Feel my own body ripped apart? This is the nature of the tracker jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 390; closing words of the epilogue)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I'll tell them how I survive it. 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. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.

“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”

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

Source: Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

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

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Smiling is mostly about smiling more.”

Suzanne Collins

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“To tell or not to tell?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

“And did you love me?”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Mockingjay