Suzanne Collins Quotes

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

~ Suzanne Collins

I’m not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt … and I could shatter into strange, razor-sharp shards.

~ Suzanne Collins

the evil thing is inside, not out.

~ Suzanne Collins

Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me instead of brushing aside any offer of help, as I did for years out of anger. Letting her handle all the money I won. Returning her hugs instead of tolerating them. My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn’t help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father’s death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.

~ Suzanne Collins

The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.

~ Suzanne Collins

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.

~ Suzanne Collins

I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

~ Suzanne Collins

She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

~ Suzanne Collins

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

~ Suzanne Collins

Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one had the right to treat them as they have been treated? Yes. This is the thing to remember when fear threatens to swallow me up.

~ Suzanne Collins

The last thing I remember ia an exquisitely beautiful green and silver moth landing on the curve of my wrist. The sound of rain on the roof of our house gently pulls me toward consciousness. I fight to return to sleep though, wrapped in a warm cocoon of blankets, safe at home. I'm vaguely aware that my head aches. Possibly I have the flu and this is why I'm allowed to stay in bed, even though I can tell I've been asleep a long time. My mother's hand strokes my cheek and I don't push is away as I would in wakefulness, never wanting her to know how much I crave that gentle touch. How much I miss her even though I still don't trust her. Then there's a voice, the wrong voice, not my mother's and i'm scared.

~ Suzanne Collins

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

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

~ Suzanne Collins

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

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

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My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.

~ Suzanne Collins

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

~ Suzanne Collins

but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. Stay with me. As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.

~ Suzanne Collins

Peeta actually is charming and then utterly winning as the boy in love. And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

~ Suzanne Collins

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

~ Suzanne Collins

Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again

~ Suzanne Collins

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

~ Suzanne Collins

They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.

~ Suzanne Collins

What did Finnick Odair want?” he asks.I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation of Finnick. “He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice.Peeta laughs. “Ugh. Not really.”“Really,” I say. “I'll tell you more when my skin stops crawling.

~ Suzanne Collins

No, when the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill just like everybody else. I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me.

~ Suzanne Collins

May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

~ Suzanne Collins

But more words tumble out. '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.'Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

~ Suzanne Collins

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

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That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.

~ Suzanne Collins

Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over?

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I'm running on hate.

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Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? says Peeta. It costs everything you are.

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

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In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

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Peeta I said Stay with meI heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always

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No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.

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

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We are what no one wants to miss at the party. I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

~ Suzanne Collins

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

~ Suzanne Collins

the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

~ Suzanne Collins