Suzanne Collins: Want

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“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: I have kept track of the boy with the bread.
Source: The Hunger Games

“So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation… "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

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

“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.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?' he asks.
'No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,' I tell him.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“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

“I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn't be fair on my part.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“What happens when we get back?
I don't know. I guess we try and forget.
I don't want to forget.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games