Suzanne Collins:
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Suzanne Collins Quotes
Source: Catching Fire
“Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.”
Source: Catching Fire
“Ladies and gentlemen, let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!”
Claudius Templesmith, p. 147
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Source: Mockingjay
“Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”
Variant: Look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they really are.
Source: Mockingjay
“Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.”
Source: Mockingjay
“And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”
Source: Catching Fire
“And if we burn, you burn with us.”
Variant: Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
Source: Mockingjay
“You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
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)
“You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?"
"All right," he whispers.”
Source: The Hunger Games
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.”
Source: 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
Variant: We could do it, you know.
Source: Catching Fire
Source: Mockingjay
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.
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