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

—  Suzanne Collins , The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!" by Suzanne Collins?
Suzanne Collins photo
Suzanne Collins 554
American television writer and novelist 1962

Related quotes

Bob Dylan photo

“The future for me is already a thing of the past.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Bye and Bye
Source: Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

Ayumi Hamasaki photo

“Everyone, including I, is certain
that "that thing" they're searching for
is in the future.
But how many people have realized
that "that" is actually in the past?
I can't even guess.”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

Duty
Lyrics, Duty

“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”

Gregory Maguire book Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Dejan Stojanovic photo

“In every moment the past is born and the present flows into the future, taking the moment that already passed.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator

“Passage,” p. 45
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Dream Chamber”

Michael Ende photo

“Without a past you can't have a future.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

Sarah Dessen photo

“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Gene Wolfe photo

“We can dive to the bottom of the sea and some say NASA will fly us to the stars, and I have known men to plunge into the past—or the future—and drown. But there's one place where we can't go. We can't go where we are already. We can't go home, because our minds, and our hearts, and our immortal souls are already there there.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

"Kevin Malone", New Terrors (1980), ed. Ramsey Campbell, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.”

Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 25 (p. 532)

Fernando Pessoa photo

“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.

Related topics