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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

“Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“What happens when we get back?
I don't know. I guess we try and forget.
I don't want to forget.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Fly you high.”

Suzanne Collins

Source: Gregor the Overlander Box Set

“Anything else?"

Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting… I ate your lunch.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: While I was waiting... I ate your lunch.
Source: Mockingjay

“Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Please feel free to take this personally.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss, p. 189
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

“I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Variant: Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness... except possibly when it comes to you.
Source: Catching Fire

“Twirl for me.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.”

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!"

"Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Here, cover yourself with this and I'll wash your shorts."

"Oh, I don't care if you see me," says Peeta.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Dawn comes before sleep does.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks.
"Whatever it takes to break you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea and you always double knot your shoelaces.' I fight back. Then I dive back into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
Source: Mockingjay

“Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Run like the river.”

Suzanne Collins

Source: Gregor the Overlander Box Set

“Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 377)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

“There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to say the words. "I love you."
"I love you, too," said Luxa.
After that there was nothing left to say.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use.
This is one of his death traps.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must be. The sensation is completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks.
"Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“And may the odds—" He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me.
I catch it in my mouth and break the delicate skin with my teeth. The sweet tartness explodes across my tongue. "—be ever in your favor!”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Gale Hawthorne and Katniss Everdeen, p. 8
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)