Suzanne Collins citations

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“C'est comme un jeu. Répétitif. Un peu lassant, même, après plus de vingt ans. Mais j'ai connu des jeux bien pires.”

“Pour survivre, je n'ai pas besoin de la flamme de Gale, nourrie de sa rage et de sa haine. J'en ai déjà bien assez en moi. Ce qu'il me faut, c'est le pissenlit au printemps. Le jaune vif qui évoque la renaissance plutôt que la destruction. La promesse que la vie continue, en dépit de nos pertes. Qu'elle peut même être douce à nouveau. Peeta est le seul à pouvoir m'offrir ça.”

“Tu n'oublies pas le visage de la personne qui était ton dernier espoir.”

“She's Prim's size in diameter.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“Why… do you find this… distracting?”

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

“Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you!”

“The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.”

“And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.”

“I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him.”

“District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.”

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm

The final lines are barely audible.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”

“Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.”

“Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous…”

“I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.”

“I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.”

“I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.”

“It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.”

“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.”

“Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.”

“Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.”