S.W. Collins Quotes

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!

Each time I wake,I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.

I never go with something in mind. I like having an array of generations in my outfits!

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.

I love clothes, but I don't have a specific favorite, because I'm very much a fashionista.

Stupid people are dangerous.

When your whole being is attracted to someone else's whole being, then I think that is someone you were meant to be connected with at some point.

I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.

Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

Anyone who loves the concept of Zero Harm obviously has nothing to love

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

It starts at midnight.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.

Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.

I start to crack at four hundred to one.

I'm not sure at all about the current prog rock scene.

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.