Suzanne Collins Quotes page 8

“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.”

Source: Catching Fire

“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.”

Source: Catching Fire

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

Source: Mockingjay

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

Source: Catching Fire

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

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Variant: It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Source: Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

Source: Catching Fire

“Oh, be quiet, Fo-Fo.”

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

“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.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“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.”

Source: Catching Fire

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

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Source: Mockingjay

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

Source: The Hunger Games

“Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying”

Source: Catching Fire

“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.”

Haymitch Abernathy and Katniss (pp. 110-111)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: "This is your earpiece. I will give you exactly one more chance to wear it. If you remove it from your ear again, I'll have you fitted with this." He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle. "It's an alternative audio unit that locks around your skull and under your chin until it's opened with a key. And I'll have the only key. If for some reason you're clever enough to disable it,"—Haymitch dumps the head shackle on the bed and whips out a tiny silver chip—"I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day."
Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. "I'll keep the earpiece in," I mutter.

“Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.”

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Source: The Hunger Games

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

Source: The Hunger Games