Suzanne Collins: Likeness

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“Remember, we're madly in love, so it‘s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark, p. 253
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?"
"Like I couldn't take you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Not like this. He wanted it to be real.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Even though I don't ask, Plutarch gives me cheerful updates on the phone like "Good news, Katniss! I think we've almost got him convinced you're not a mutt!" Or "Today he was allowed to feed himself pudding!”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that again.” “Or what?” I ask. “Or… or…” He can’t think of anything good. “Just give me a minute.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say.
"Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say.
"A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss, p. 189
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay