Suzanne Collins Quotes

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Reg...

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...

Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that again.”...

Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.

We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we coul...

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

And when again it’s morning, they’ ll wash away. Here it’s safe, here it’s warm Here the daisies gua...

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour.""Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you...

Deep in the meadow, hidden far awayA cloak of leaves, a moonbeam rayForget your woes and let your tr...

I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white ...

Cookies. A pin. I'm getting all kinds of gifts today. Madge gives me one more. A kiss on the cheek. ...

Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.

Peeta opens his mouth for the first bite without hesitation. He swallows, then frowns slightly. "The...

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your ...

Funny, though, I don't feel too bad.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.

You have a... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying ...

I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this an...

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that ga...

Deep in the meadow, under the willowa bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your head, and clos...

Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed to...

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true...

Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it seems I have become som...

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol ...

One of Coin's men lays a hand on my arm. Its not an aggressive move, really, but after the arena's I...

But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows ope...

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set....

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...

That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you d...

How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag...

Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I s...

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, t...

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.

I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the ...

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The ...

Are you, are you Coming to the tree They strung up a man They say who murdered three. Strange things...

She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...

I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always f...

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...

What about Gale?""He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly. "And it was okay with both of us? Yo...

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital."I assumed Jo...

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm af...

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel ...

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

That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...

You love me. Real or not real?"I tell him, "Real.

But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...

Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask,...

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only P...

There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say.'Did you foll...

I'm running on hate.

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again...

I knew you'd kiss me.""How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. ...

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask."Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where ...

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, wit...

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, ...

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think...

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

I'm left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick’s fate would have one day been mine. Why ...

We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though s...

And here, finally here in this place, in these circumstances, I will really have to kill him. And Sn...

Why...do you find this...distracting?

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.

I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning m...

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places ...

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to set...

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good when really it's for there own good.

He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for b...

And if we burn, you burn with us.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt...

Finnik?” I say. “Maybe some pants?”He looks down at his legs as if noticing them for the first time....

Do you find this...distracting?

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?""No, about...

No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway.""To make sure Katniss is still here?...

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls...

Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself ju...

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.”“And you're still not sorry,” I reply...