Suzanne Collins Quotes

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

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

“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?”

“Fly you high.”

“Anything else?"

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

“Please feel free to take this personally.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Twirl for me.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Dawn comes before sleep does.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.”

“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.”

“Run like the river.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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!”