Suzanne Collins: Going

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”

Katniss and Peeta (p. 388; closing words of the main text)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.
So after, when he whispers, "You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real."

“"You're not leaving me here alone," I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”

Katniss Everdeen, p. 343
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

“You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.”

Source: Catching Fire

“Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna.
"Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.”

Greasy Sae, p. 12
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

“You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?"

"All right," he whispers.”

Source: Mockingjay

“I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.”

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, pp. 373-374 (closing words)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: "One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice wasn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I finally have to let go.

“Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.”

Katniss, p. 389
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

“there's plenty of blame to go around.”

Source: Catching Fire

“You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.”

Source: Mockingjay

“I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.”

Gale and Katniss (p. 197)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: "I don't stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."
"The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you," I say.

“I'm going to be the Mockingjay.”

Source: Catching Fire

“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.”

Source: Mockingjay

“I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name.

And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.”

Source: Mockingjay