Suzanne Collins Quotes

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.

because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.

They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.

She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail.

Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.

But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!

I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.' Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out.' I reply

Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death." "Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-

You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?" "Like I couldn't take you.

Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.

I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.

I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breath Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate

Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway.

Fire beats roses again.

I will never give up if you never give in.

Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. - Katniss -

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.

Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.

I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

Let the Hunger Games Begin!

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in.

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

While you live, the revolution lives

I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

i can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.

Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.

Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

It'd be better if he were easier to hate.

He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

Oh, well. At least my blood is flowing.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.