Suzanne Collins Quotes

There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.

People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. "Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.

I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. “Katniss…he’s still trying to keep you alive.” To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

And it takes so much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.

Despite what I feel for Peeta, this is when I accept deep down that he'll never come back to me. Or i'll never go back to him. I'll die for my trouble. And he'll die insane and hating me.

We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?

Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.

Crying is not an option.

I will never have a life with Gale even if I want to.

How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?

If the careers want me, let them find me.

No matter what I do, I'm hurting someone." - Katniss Everdeen

Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice.

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

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

Here, cover yourself with this and I'll wash your shorts." "Oh, I don't care if you see me," says Peeta.

No one knows what to do with you, girlie.

"If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?" "Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive." "Mockingjays do."

You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?" "All right," he whispers.

I vote yes....for Prim.

Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.

Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

it is a perfect weapon

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

They recognize me. Of course they recognize me. My face is uncovered and I'm standing here outside of District 12 pointing an arrow at them. Who else would I be?

I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark

The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.

if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

and when he kissed me i didn't know what to do.

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

so people really do tear out their hair and beat the ground with their fists

If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.

Actually, Katniss isn’t complaining because she has no intention of staying with the “Star Squad,” but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan.