Suzanne Collins Quotes

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“See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings… even the birds stop to listen.”

“We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.”

“What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?”

“If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up”

“But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.”

“I'm running on hate.”

“It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.”

“You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.”

“One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.”

“I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.”

“We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly.

"What?" I ask.

"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale.

I don't know how to respond. This idea is so preposterous.”

“How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.”

“the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”

“for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.”

“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”

“Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back, but I don't quite catch it.”

“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me… no one can do that.”

“ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.”

“So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.”

“‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?”

“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

“And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.”

“It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.”

“I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.”

“Oh, be quiet, Fo-Fo.”

“Embrace the probability of your imminent death…. and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”

“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help […] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

“The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.”

“My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.”

“Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.

Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”

“They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.”

“Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying”

“There's something else there as well, something entirely her own. An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”

“Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.”

“This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me… and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.”

“It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.”

“Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

“I start to crack at four hundred to one.”

“I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.”

“I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.”

“I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.”

“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”

“Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first."
Of course I do.
Gale.”

“So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol.”

“They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.”

“Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.”

“Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.”

“There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.”

“Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.”