Suzanne Collins Quotes page 9

“The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?”

Source: Catching Fire

“The star-crossed lovers”

Source: Catching Fire

“For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.”

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.”

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.”
I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.”

Source: Mockingjay

“Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner”

Source: Mockingjay

“Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.”

Source: Catching Fire

“‎I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.”

Source: Mockingjay

“Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.”

Source: Catching Fire

Source: The Hunger Games

“The girl on fire.”

“Im still betting on you. - Cinna.”

Variant: Katniss, the girl who was on fire!
Source: The Hunger Games

“Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.”

Source: Catching Fire

“I miss him so badly it hurts.”

Variant: Stupid people are dangerous.
Source: The Hunger Games

“I'm so tired, Katniss.”

“Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.”

Source: Mockingjay

“It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.”

Source: Mockingjay

“I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.”

Source: Mockingjay

“You're hideous, you know that, right?”

Source: Mockingjay

“Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don’t care. I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Lie to Katniss about the rebellion so she doesn’t do anything crazy.”

Source: Catching Fire

“Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.”

Katniss (p. 118)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

“So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark”

Source: Catching Fire

“In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. At least a rainbow gives you a tip about the weather.”

Source: Catching Fire

“No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“And how I watched my little sister become a human torch. Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”

Source: Mockingjay

“People don't need wings to survive"
"Mockingjays do.”

Source: Mockingjay

“You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.”

Source: Mockingjay

“And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?”

Source: The Hunger Games

“Maybe… because for the first time… there was a chance I could keep him,” I say.
“So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?”
“Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.”

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

“I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.”

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.”

“"Oh," I say under my breath. "Tick, tock." My eyes sweep around the full circle of the arena and I know she's right. "Tick, tock. This is a clock."”

Source: The Hunger Games

“They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”

Katniss, p. 325
The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
Source: Mockingjay

“She's Prim's size in diameter.”

Source: Catching Fire

“But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”

Source: The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.”

“How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.”

“The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.”

“If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”

Source: Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

“Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.”

“I want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you. -Peeta Mellark”

Source: The Hunger Games

“I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.”

Variant: I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
Source: Catching Fire

“I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia”

“Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.”

Source: Mockingjay

“Why… do you find this… distracting?”

Source: Mockingjay

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

Variant: Do you find this... distracting?
Source: Mockingjay