S.W. Collins Quotes

No, when the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill just like everybody else. I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me.

May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.

The earth's orbit didn't slow down. The world didn't stop falling. Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees.

Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over?

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

I'm running on hate.

I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.

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

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

We are what no one wants to miss at the party. I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

We need words from heaven. Too many words come from the human heart and not from heaven. God wants prophets who will bring words from heaven that will change things on earth.

When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity.

Remember: Let's look for ways to take *care* of each other rather than look for ways to take *advantage* of each other.

Remember: Let's look for ways to take care of each other rather than look for ways to take advantage of each other.

Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

We are the custodians of our bodies. We must take action to employ healthy lifestyle habits to prevent, reduce, and/or manage disease and illness.

The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.

I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

a discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the supernatural

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in allplaces, in all times.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone

I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

There are two types of people in this world: Those who make it their life's work to rid themselves of all pain and suffering... and Artists.

I don't write comedy. I write drama that's funny.

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

I love cheetahs. Every moment of every day is spent in fear of dying a terrible death yet they always carry themselves elegantly, remain loyal to their family, and never complain about anything.

He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay.

I am thinking, ’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")

And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.-Haymitch Abernathy

And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air

Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may. -Reverend Finch's wife

Funny, though, I don't feel too bad.

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot, ” I say.