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quotes by Suzanne Collins
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"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.
“Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?” says Caesar.
Peeta sighs. “Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping.”
Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.
“She have another fellow?” asks Caesar.
“I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her,” says Peeta.
“So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouraging-ly.
“I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning . . . won’t help in my case,” says Peeta.
“Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified.
Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because . . . because . . . she came here with me.”
"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.
“Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?” says Caesar.
Peeta sighs. “Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping.”
Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.
“She have another fellow?” asks Caesar.
“I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her,” says Peeta.
“So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouraging-ly.
“I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning . . . won’t help in my case,” says Peeta.
“Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified.
Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because . . . because . . . she came here with me.”
"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"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."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"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.' "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans."
"
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
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— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"And than he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
""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.""
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.""
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
""Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
"Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"Destroying things is much easier than making them.
—Katniss Everdeen"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
—Katniss Everdeen"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
""If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my belt, freeing it. Peeta sees it and his hand clamps on my wrist. "No, I won't let you." "Trust me," I whisper. He holds my gaze for a long moment then lets go. I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. "On the count of three?" Peeta leans down and kisses me once, very gently. "The count of three," he says. We stand, our backs pressed together, our empty hands locked tight. "Hold them out. I want everyone to see," he says. I spread out my fingers, and the dark berries glisten in the sun. I give Peeta's hand one last squeeze as a signal, as a good-bye, and we begin counting. "One." Maybe I'm wrong. "Two." Maybe they don't care if we both die. "Three!" It's too late to change my mind. I lift my hand to my mouth taking one last look at the world. The berries have just passed my lips when the trumpets begin to blare. The frantic voice of Claudius Templesmith shouts above them. "Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you - the tributes of District 12!""
— Suzanne Collins
— Suzanne Collins
"It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"'We could do it, you know'
'What?'
'Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.' "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
'What?'
'Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.' "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
" "I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip."
"Hey, Gale," I say.
"Thought you'd be gone by now," He says.
My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble."
"Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip."
"Hey, Gale," I say.
"Thought you'd be gone by now," He says.
My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble."
"Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
""Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred.
"You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters." said Vikus.
"Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters." answered Ripred."
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods)
"You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters." said Vikus.
"Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters." answered Ripred."
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods)
"But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise. "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"“All right, so give me some idea of what you can do,” says Haymitch.
“I can’t do anything,” says Peeta. “Unless you count baking bread.”
“Sorry, I don’t. Katniss. I already know you’re handy with a knife,” says Haymitch.
“Not really. But I can hunt,” I say. “With a bow and ar-row.”
“And you’re good?” asks Haymitch.
I have to think about it. I’ve been putting food on the table for four years. That’s no small task. I’m not as good as my father was, but he’d had more practice. I’ve better aim than Gale, but I’ve had more practice. He’s a genius with traps and snares. “I’m all right,” I say.
“She’s excellent,” says Peeta. “My father buys her squirrels. He always comments on how the arrows never pierce the body. She hits every one in the eye. It’s the same with the rabbits she sells the butcher. She can even bring down deer.”
This assessment of my skills from Peeta takes me totally by surprise. First, that he ever noticed. Second, that he’s talking me up. “What are you doing?” I ask him suspiciously.
“What are you doing? If he’s going to help you, he has to know what you’re capable of. Don’t underrate your-self,” says Peeta.
I don’t know why, but this rubs me the wrong way. “What about you? I’ve seen you in the market. You can lift hundred-pound bags of flour,” I snap at him. “Tell him that. That’s not nothing.”
“Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people. It’s not like being able to use a weapon. You know it isn’t,” he shoots back.
“He can wrestle,” I tell Haymitch. “He came in second in our school competition last year, only after his broth-er.”
“What use is that? How many times have you seen someone wrestle someone to death?” says Peeta in dis-gust.
“There’s always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you’ll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I’m dead!” I can hear my voice rising in anger.
“But you won’t! You’ll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows. You know what my mother said to me when she came to say good-bye, as if to cheer me up, she says maybe District Twelve will finally have a winner. Then I realized, she didn’t mean me, she meant you!” bursts out Peeta.
"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
“I can’t do anything,” says Peeta. “Unless you count baking bread.”
“Sorry, I don’t. Katniss. I already know you’re handy with a knife,” says Haymitch.
“Not really. But I can hunt,” I say. “With a bow and ar-row.”
“And you’re good?” asks Haymitch.
I have to think about it. I’ve been putting food on the table for four years. That’s no small task. I’m not as good as my father was, but he’d had more practice. I’ve better aim than Gale, but I’ve had more practice. He’s a genius with traps and snares. “I’m all right,” I say.
“She’s excellent,” says Peeta. “My father buys her squirrels. He always comments on how the arrows never pierce the body. She hits every one in the eye. It’s the same with the rabbits she sells the butcher. She can even bring down deer.”
This assessment of my skills from Peeta takes me totally by surprise. First, that he ever noticed. Second, that he’s talking me up. “What are you doing?” I ask him suspiciously.
“What are you doing? If he’s going to help you, he has to know what you’re capable of. Don’t underrate your-self,” says Peeta.
I don’t know why, but this rubs me the wrong way. “What about you? I’ve seen you in the market. You can lift hundred-pound bags of flour,” I snap at him. “Tell him that. That’s not nothing.”
“Yes, and I’m sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people. It’s not like being able to use a weapon. You know it isn’t,” he shoots back.
“He can wrestle,” I tell Haymitch. “He came in second in our school competition last year, only after his broth-er.”
“What use is that? How many times have you seen someone wrestle someone to death?” says Peeta in dis-gust.
“There’s always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you’ll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I’m dead!” I can hear my voice rising in anger.
“But you won’t! You’ll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows. You know what my mother said to me when she came to say good-bye, as if to cheer me up, she says maybe District Twelve will finally have a winner. Then I realized, she didn’t mean me, she meant you!” bursts out Peeta.
"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.
—Katniss Everdeen"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
—Katniss Everdeen"
— Suzanne Collins (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."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"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."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I cant guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left.So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his.
—Katniss Everdeen "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
—Katniss Everdeen "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
" Upon this crown my pledge I give,
To my last breath,I hold this choice,
I will your unjust deaths avenge,
All here who died without a voice."
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Marks of Secret)
To my last breath,I hold this choice,
I will your unjust deaths avenge,
All here who died without a voice."
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Marks of Secret)
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"I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
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""Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
-Peeta Mellark
The hunger Games
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— Suzanne Collins
-Peeta Mellark
The hunger Games
Page 253"
— Suzanne Collins
"I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. "
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"The War Has Been Declared.
Your Ally Been Ensnared.
It Is Now Or it Is Never.
Break The Code Or Die Forever.
Time Is Running Out
Running out
Running out
To the Warrior give my blade
By his hand your fate is made
But do not forget the ticking
Or the clicking, clicking, clicking
While a rat's toung may be flicking
With its feet it does the tricking
For the paw and not the jaw
Makes the Code of Claw
Time is stamding still
Standing still
Standing still
Since the princess is the key
To unlock the treachery
She cannot avoid the matching or the scratching, scratching, scratching
When a secret plot is hatching
In the naming is the catching
What she saw, it is the flaw
Of the Code of Claw
Time is turning back
Turning back
Turning back
When the monster's blood is Spilled
When the Warrior has been Killed
You must not ingore the rapping
Or the tapping, tapping, tapping
If the Gnawers find you napping
You will rot while they are mapping
Out the law of thouse who gnaw
In the Code of Claw"
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, and Gregor and the Marks of Secret)
Your Ally Been Ensnared.
It Is Now Or it Is Never.
Break The Code Or Die Forever.
Time Is Running Out
Running out
Running out
To the Warrior give my blade
By his hand your fate is made
But do not forget the ticking
Or the clicking, clicking, clicking
While a rat's toung may be flicking
With its feet it does the tricking
For the paw and not the jaw
Makes the Code of Claw
Time is stamding still
Standing still
Standing still
Since the princess is the key
To unlock the treachery
She cannot avoid the matching or the scratching, scratching, scratching
When a secret plot is hatching
In the naming is the catching
What she saw, it is the flaw
Of the Code of Claw
Time is turning back
Turning back
Turning back
When the monster's blood is Spilled
When the Warrior has been Killed
You must not ingore the rapping
Or the tapping, tapping, tapping
If the Gnawers find you napping
You will rot while they are mapping
Out the law of thouse who gnaw
In the Code of Claw"
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, and Gregor and the Marks of Secret)
"They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!
—Katniss Everdeen"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
—Katniss Everdeen"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?'
'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.'
Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously.'
"
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Code of Claw)
'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.'
Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously.'
"
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Code of Claw)
"I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"Deep in the meadow, under the willow
A bed of grass, a soft green pillow
Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes
And when again they open, the sun will rise.
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings
them true
Here is the place where I love you.
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm.
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings
them true
Here is the place where I love you."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
A bed of grass, a soft green pillow
Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes
And when again they open, the sun will rise.
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings
them true
Here is the place where I love you.
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm.
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings
them true
Here is the place where I love you."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
""I can see why that day made you happy."
"Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
"Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.
"The goat has paid for itself. Sveral times over," I say in a superior tone...
"You're such a bad liar, Katniss. I don't know how you survived this long." He begins to mimic me. "I knew that goat was a gold mine. You're a little cooler though. Of course, I'm not going." He shakes his head. "Never gamble at cards. You'll lose your last coin," he says."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
"Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.
"The goat has paid for itself. Sveral times over," I say in a superior tone...
"You're such a bad liar, Katniss. I don't know how you survived this long." He begins to mimic me. "I knew that goat was a gold mine. You're a little cooler though. Of course, I'm not going." He shakes his head. "Never gamble at cards. You'll lose your last coin," he says."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"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.
—Katniss Everdeen"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
—Katniss Everdeen"
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
"hey the hunger games is like the best book ever you should read it "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
— Suzanne Collins (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. "
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created.
"You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say.
"Get dressed, you worthless thing.""
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say.
"Get dressed, you worthless thing.""
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"If I feel ragged, my [beauty] prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair (p. 48)."
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
"turn and turn and turn again
you see the what, but not the when
remedy and wrong entwine
and so they form a single vine"
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods)
you see the what, but not the when
remedy and wrong entwine
and so they form a single vine"
— Suzanne Collins (Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods)
"Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee. "
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
— Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire)
