S.W. Collins Quotes

I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.

The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.

I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

Why? Do you find this" - he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose - "distracting?

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

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?

I was never afraid of going after what I wanted, and making that known, and being vocal about it.

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...

As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.

I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in any case. Because...she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be cast as the lead heroine is completely incredible.

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

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

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

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

there's plenty of blame to go around.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!

When you have a belief, then you make your views known.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.