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