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.”

“So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.”

“There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.”

“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”

“Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.”

“Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.”

“It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.”

“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”

“Well, I don't have much competition here."
"You don't have much competition anywhere.”

“Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.”

“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”

“I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.”

“My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me……..”

“If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?"
"Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive."
"Mockingjays do.”

“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.”

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

“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”

“Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.”

“"Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games," says Peeta.”

“Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.”

“Katniss…. he's still trying to keep you alive.”

“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”

“It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."

"Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-”

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

“All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.
And I hate him for it.”

“Stay with me.

Always.”

“He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice… In exchange, he trusted me with his.”

“I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”

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

“I can only form one clear thought.”