G.G. Collins Quotes

My words hang in the air. I look to the screen, hoping to see them recording some wave of reconciliation going through the crowd. Instead I watch myself get shot on television.

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

It's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.

Come on and eat with him. I promise, I won't let him kiss you again.

And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

The more you can distract yourself, the better.

All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.

Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.

I take Peeta's face in my hands. "Don't worry. I'll see you at midnight.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS

I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.

Lucky thing were allies, right? -Finnick Odair

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.

Where did they get those screams, Katniss?

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

I'm so tired, Katniss.

How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.

What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.

I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.

Thank you for you consideration

KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.

You know what I miss? More than anything? Coffee. -- Plutarch Heavensbee

And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

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

Peeta" I said "Stay with me" I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always

Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!