Suzanne Collins - Time Quotes

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Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay.

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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

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I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.

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

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He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. You're going to make a great mother, you know, he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.

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Tick, tock, whispers Wiress. I guide her in front of me and get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. Tick, tock. Tick, tock, I agree softly. It's time for bed. Tick, tock. Go to sleep.

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The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

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If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

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