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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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✵ 10. August 1962
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Suzanne Collins Quotes

“Beauty that arose out of pain.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-"
"Say we move on," I broke in.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner.

Good. I'm starving.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?' he asks.
'No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,' I tell him.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“He frosted under heavy guard.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Whatever it takes to break you.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say.
"Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“You and me Haymitch. Very cozy. Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale.
-Peeta Mellark”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again”

Suzanne Collins

“Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine.

- Katniss”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name.

And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

President Snow, p. 23
Variant: Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

“Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Hey, Effie, watch this!" says Peeta. He tosses his fork over his shoulder and literally licks his plate clean whit his tongue making loud, satisfied sounds. Then he blows a kiss out to her in general and calls, "We miss you, Effie!”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say.
"A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
Source: The Hunger Games

“Highly unlikely but not impossible.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn't be fair on my part.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“It's weird, how much he's noticed me… And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. […] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“It'd be better if he were easier to hate.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay