Suzanne Collins Quotes
Variant: We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self destruction.
Source: Mockingjay
“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.”
Source: Mockingjay
“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”
Source: Catching Fire
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...
“Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.”
Source: Catching Fire
Katniss (p. 232)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
“I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“She has no idea. The effect she can have.”
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)
“Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn't have to answer to kings and queens."”
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."
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.
“What about you?"
"Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.”
Source: Catching Fire
“You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.”
Greasy Sae, p. 12
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
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