Suzanne Collins Quotes

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

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There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

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She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

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I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

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I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...

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Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

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The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater.

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

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

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Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

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

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What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.

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And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

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I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg and pull myself over to her. Her voice remains steady as she croons to Buttercup. "It's all right, baby, it's all right. We'll be OK down there." My mother wraps her arms around us. I allow myself to feel young for a moment and rest my head on her shoulder.

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The more likable he is, the more deadly he is. -Katniss Everdeen

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

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I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

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I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

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Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'll ether be dead or with us. It's...it's more than we could hope for! Well, that's a sunny view of our situation.

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We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

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You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

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

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He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

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

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Come on and eat with him. I promise, I won't let him kiss you again.

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It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.

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And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.

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And then, when he's been underwater so long I feel certain he's drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. Don't do that, I say. What? Come up or stay under? he says. Either. Neither. Whatever

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As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

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If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

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