Suzanne Collins Quotes page 2

“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.”

Source: Mockingjay

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

Source: Catching Fire

“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.”

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Source: The Hunger Games

“Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.”

Source: Catching Fire

“Katniss…. he's still trying to keep you alive.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”

Source: Mockingjay

“It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."

"Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-”

Source: Mockingjay

“Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.
And I hate him for it.”

Source: Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 232)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

“Stay with me.

Always.”

“He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice… In exchange, he trusted me with his.”

Source: Mockingjay

“I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“I can only form one clear thought.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“Oh, that I do know… Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”

Source: Catching Fire

“Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.”

Source: Mockingjay

Source: Catching Fire

“Real or not real?”

“She has no idea. The effect she can have.”

Source: Mockingjay

“Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.”

Peeta to Katniss (p. 325)
Variant: I think... you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

“Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally.

"No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?”

Source: Mockingjay

“My mother says healers are born, not made.”

Source: Catching Fire

“Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn't have to answer to kings and queens."”

Source: The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins The Underland Chronicles

Henry, Gregor, and Ripred, p. 217
The Underland Chronicles, Gregor the Overlander (2003)
Context: "Luxa and I do not serve food, we are royalty." "Yeah, well, I'm the warrior and Boots is a princess. And you two are going to get pretty hungry if you're waiting for me to serve you." "Tell him, boy. Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn't have to answer to kings and queens."

“It had all looked pretty familiar. The bodies, the fear, the desperation. These things had always been here in the Overland, he supposed, but he had never really paid any attention to them until now.”

Suzanne Collins The Underland Chronicles

Source: The Underland Chronicles, Gregor and the Code of Claw (2007), p. 409
Context: Gregor turned on the television and flipped through the channels. He stopped at the news. A bomb had blown up in a marketplace somewhere, killing forty-nine. There were body parts and smoke and relatives wailing. The next story was about refugees dying on the road, driven from their homes by an enemy army. The news anchor was just starting to show a grainy video of a soldier who had been taken hostage when his mother reached in and switched off the television. She looked so sad. "I think you've seen enough, Gregor." It had all looked pretty familiar. The bodies, the fear, the desperation. These things had always been here in the Overland, he supposed, but he had never really paid any attention to them until now.

“I had to do that. At least once.”

“You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?"
"Like I couldn't take you.”

Source: Catching Fire

“You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.”

Source: Mockingjay

“Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.”

Source: Mockingjay