Suzanne Collins Quotes

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.

Where did they get those screams, Katniss?

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

I'm so tired, Katniss.

How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.

What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.

I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.

Thank you for you consideration

KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.

You know what I miss? More than anything? Coffee. -- Plutarch Heavensbee

And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

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

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.

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

Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.

I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving.

That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.

Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.

Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.