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.”

“It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”

“There are much worse games to play.”

“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”

“The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.”

“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”

“Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. To make myself put a name to the thing I've lost. But what's the use? It's gone. He's gone. Whatever existed between us is gone. All that's left is my promise to kill Snow. I tell myself this ten times a day.”

“Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”

“Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here.
No stranger would let it be if we met up
At midnight in the hanging tree.”

“We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.”

“Here's some advice. Stay alive.”

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”

“Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.”

“I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.”

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

“Because when he sings… even the birds stop to listen.”

“I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.”

“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.”

“Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”

“Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”

“Aim higher in case you fall short.”

“"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.”

“Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me.
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

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

“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”

“"I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it," I say.”

“They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!”

“Katniss. I remember about the bread.”

“But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.”

“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”