Suzanne Collins: Quotes about thinking

“Thinking like your prey… that's where you find their vulnerabilities.”

Source: Mockingjay

“I don't think it's going to work out. Winning… won't help in any case. Because… she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark”

Source: Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins

Caesar Flickerman and Peeta Mellark, p. 138
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: "So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can‘t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.
"I don't think it‘s going to work out. Winning... won‘t help in my case," says Peeta.
"Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because... because... she came here with me."

“What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?"
"I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.”

“All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“I wonder how she'll make up her mind."
"Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”

Source: Catching Fire

“He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.”

Source: Mockingjay

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

Source: The Hunger Games

“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: Catching Fire

“Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's true or imagined, usually followed by a brief explanation.”

Source: Catching Fire

“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: Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“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.”

“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 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

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

“And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.”

Source: Mockingjay

“Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.”

Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008), p. 194
Context: I enter a nightmare from which I wake repeatedly only to find a greater terror awaiting me. All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can’t help but believe they're real. Each time I wake, I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't. It's only the beginning of a new chapter of torture. How many ways do I watch Prim die? Relive my father's last moments? Feel my own body ripped apart? This is the nature of the tracker jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.