S.W. Collins Quotes

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good when really it's for there own good.

And if we burn, you burn with us.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true...

They were Siamese twins, joined at the groin by a traitorous piece of meat.

Get away from me, ” she cried. “What are you?” “Death, ” Lok answered menacingly. Brooke looked at him in horror. “Haha, just kidding.

Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.

You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

...it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.

Nature's voice and Nature's beauty---God's soothing and purifying angels of the soul---speak to me most tenderly and most happily, at such times as these.

The point of art is to inspire you to create your own.

your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving

And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind, Gregor knew how to kill things, not bring them back ti life.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

I thought he wanted it, anyway, " I say. "Not like this, " Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

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

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

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

Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? 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.

My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

The fly lands on the swatter.The movie runs backwardsand catches fire in the projector.This species apes us wellby talking only about itself

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

Good is the enemy of great

Be kind to yourself, so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war

As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and "success" and other people's opinions.

To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.

I knew you'd kiss me.""How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain, " He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.

I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.

Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know.

Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset, " I say. "At least, that's what you told me once.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Allow the power to flow through you. Don’t try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.