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.”

“We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.”

“Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.”

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”

“I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.'
Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?'
'You could wring me out.' I reply”

“If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.”

“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”

“Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.”

“Fire beats roses again.”

“Even though I don't ask, Plutarch gives me cheerful updates on the phone like "Good news, Katniss! I think we've almost got him convinced you're not a mutt!" Or "Today he was allowed to feed himself pudding!”

“And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.”

“And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”

“He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”

“That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.”

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

“And if we burn, you burn with us.”

“Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.”

“You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person”

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

“Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you."
"So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
"Whatever it takes to break you.”

“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

“But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.”

“You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?"

"All right," he whispers.”

“Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

“The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.”

“No one knows what to do with you, girlie.”

“You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?"
"We have a very big bathtub.”

“Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.”

“You could do a lot worse.”

“Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”