“Hendrix has read the interviews where Collins has flatly denied knowing about Battle Royale before she wrote The Hunger Games.”

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”

“If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side. ”

“Only a fool loves war. Or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.”

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

“She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter ъ, …”

“I take responsibility for ending starvation within twenty years. The Hunger Project is not about solutions. It's not about fixing up the project. It's not about anybody's good idea. The Hunger Project is about creating a context - creating the end of hunger as an idea whose time has come.”

“Oh, here’s a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test? It reads, ‘What’s wrong with this statement?’ And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, ‘What’s wrong with you?”

“She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.”

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”