Suzanne Collins Quotes (554 quotes, page 3)

Katniss, pp. 31-32
Variant: Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Like me, for instance. Right now.
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

“But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?"

"All right," he whispers.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

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Katniss and Plutarch Heavensbee (p. 379)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: “Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?” I ask.
“Oh, not now. Now we’re in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated,” he says. “But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.”
“What?” I ask.
“The time it sticks. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution of the human race. Think about that.“

“The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“No one knows what to do with you, girlie.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?"
"We have a very big bathtub.”

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“Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: It costs your life,” says Caesar.

“Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?” says Peeta. “It costs everything you are.
Source: Mockingjay

“You could do a lot worse.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Variant: We could do it, you know.
Source: Catching Fire

“Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them."
"That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Oh, he's on top of it. It was volunteer only, but he pretended not to notice me waving my hand in the air," says Haymitch. "See? He's already demonstrated good judgment.”

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Source: Mockingjay

“Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me."
As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, pp. 373-374 (closing words)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: "One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice wasn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I finally have to let go.

“I vote yes…. for Prim.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay