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Suzanne Collins Quotes: 94

You love me. Real or not real?"I tell him, "Real.
Mockingjay
Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
The Hunger Games
You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
The Hunger Games
I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
Catching Fire
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
The Hunger Games
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Mockingjay
Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
The Hunger Games
Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
Mockingjay
Destroying things is much easier than making them.
The Hunger Games
Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your troubles layAnd when it's morning again, they'll wash awayHere it's safe, here it's warmHere the daisies guard you from every harmHere your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them trueHere is the place where I love you.
The Hunger Games
You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.
Catching Fire
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real,"he whispers."Real,"I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.
Mockingjay
Stupid people are dangerous.
The Hunger Games
I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.
The Hunger Games
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
Catching Fire
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
Mockingjay
I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.
The Hunger Games
Finnick?"I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this"-- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell
Mockingjay
Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
Mockingjay
You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
The Hunger Games
So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
Catching Fire
You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
The Hunger Games
And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.
The Hunger Games
I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
Catching Fire
Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
The Hunger Games
Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress."Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?"I say."It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?"he asks."Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it,"I say."Not if I keep looking at you,"he says.
Catching Fire
May the odds be ever in your favor!
The Hunger Games
I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
Catching Fire
I must have loved you a lot.
Mockingjay
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.
Mockingjay
Some walks you have to take alone.
Mockingjay
It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.
The Hunger Games
District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.
The Hunger Games
There are much worse games to play.
Mockingjay
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always,"he murmurs.
Mockingjay
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.
Catching Fire
One more time? For the audience?"he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.
The Hunger Games
Ally."Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.
Mockingjay
Katniss, the girl who was on fire!
The Hunger Games
Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.
The Hunger Games
Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.
The Hunger Games
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, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
Mockingjay
Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.
Mockingjay
At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.
Catching Fire
We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss,"says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.
Catching Fire
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
Mockingjay
I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
Catching Fire
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
The Hunger Games
Aim higher in case you fall short.
Catching Fire
That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. 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.
Mockingjay
We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
The Hunger Games
You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.
The Hunger Games
No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
The Hunger Games
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
Catching Fire
Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
Catching Fire
But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together."I'm not glad,"says Peeta. "I wish we had waited until the whole thing was done officially."This takes even Caesar aback. "Surely even a brief time is better than no time?"Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar,"says Peeta bitterly, "If it weren't for the baby.
Catching Fire
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-
The Hunger Games
Stay with me.Always.
Mockingjay
Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.
I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
The Hunger Games
Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
Catching Fire
Because...because...she came here with me.
The Hunger Games
An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.
Mockingjay
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.
The Hunger Games
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
Catching Fire
Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Catching Fire
You can swim, too."he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.
You could do a lot worse.
Catching Fire
Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?
Catching Fire
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know,"Haymitch says.
Catching Fire
But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.
Mockingjay
Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.
Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at himTell him that. Thats not nothing.Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.
The Hunger Games
Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.
The Hunger Games
You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
Mockingjay
Do you find this...distracting?
Mockingjay
To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.
The Hunger Games
All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.
Mockingjay
hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home,"I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you,"he says.
Catching Fire
Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Catching Fire
Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.
Mockingjay
Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
The Hunger Games
Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
Mockingjay
But some secrets are too delicious not to share.
Mockingjay
People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.
Mockingjay
A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.
Mockingjay
You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future.
Mockingjay
If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
Gregor and the Code of Claw
Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.
The Hunger Games
If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
Gregor and the Code of Claw
Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.
Gregor the Overlander
Warmblood now a bloodborne death,Will rob your body of it's breathMark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all
It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.
The Hunger Games