S.W. Collins Quotes

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

You could do a lot worse.

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.

Only.. I want to do die as myself

Sleep: the stepchild of Death.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

She's Prim's size in diameter.

Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

Courage only counts when you can count.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

the evil thing is inside, not out.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

I miss him so badly it hurts.

I had to do that. At least once.

Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.

It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.

Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.