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.”

“Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.”

“She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail”

“But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!”

“When you're in the arena… you just remember who the enemy is.”

“It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.”

“Highly unlikely but not impossible.”

“if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.”

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

“I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.”

“The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.”

“Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.”

“He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.”

“It's weird, how much he's noticed me… And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.”

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. […] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.”

“It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”

“It'd be better if he were easier to hate.”

“Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.”

“The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand”

“I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.”

“Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. 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.”

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

“Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.”

“Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?”

“Fly you high.”

“Anything else?"

Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting… I ate your lunch.”

“Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.”

“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”

“The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.”

“Please feel free to take this personally.”