""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

""And may the odds be ever in your favor.""
— Suzanne Collins

"Always trust computer games."
— Ridley Pearson

"Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score."
— Jasper Fforde (The Big Over Easy)

"My first game was a shoot 'em up, but when I designed it I found that creating the world I was going to blow up was more interesting than blowing it up – that's where I came to Sim City."
— Wil Wright

"Sir. Finishing this Fight."
— Master Chief, Halo

"I end up watching this movie about some girl who's supposed to be so smart and edgy and unpopular. She wears glasses, that's how you know she's so smart. And she's the only one that has dark hair in the school- a place that looks like Planet Blond.

Anyway, she somehow ends up going to the prom- hello, gag- and she doesn't wear her glasses, so suddenly she's all beautiful. And she's bashful and shy because she doesn't feel comfortable wearing a dress. But then the guy says something like, "Wow, I never knew you were so pretty," and she feels on top of the world.

So, basically, the whole point is she's pretty. Oh, and smart, too. But what's really important here is that she's pretty.

For a second I think about Katie. About her thin little Clarissa Le Fey.

It must be a pain being fat. There are NO fat people on Planet Blond.

I don't get it. I mean, even movies where the actress is smart- like they seem like they'd be smart in real life, they're all gorgeous. And they usually get a boyfriend somewhere in the story. Even if they say they don't want one. They always, always end up falling in love, and you're supposed to be like, "Oh, good."

I once said this to my mom, and she laughed. "Honey, Hollywood... reality- two different universes. Don't make yourself crazy."

Which made me feel pretty pathetic. Like I didn't know the difference between a movie and the real world.

But then when everyone gets on you about your hair and your clothes and your this and your that, and "Are you fat?" and "Are you sexy?" you start thinking, Hey, maybe I'm not the only one who can't tell the difference between movies and reality.

Maybe everyone really does think you can look like that. And that you should look like that.

Because, you know, otherwise you might not get to go to the prom and fall in love."
— Mariah Fredericks (Head Games)

"Life is like Tetris. If it doesn't fit, just flip it over "
— Sabine Hein

"Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game."
— Gary Gygax

"All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elefant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains makkeable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. Generally, all the best mechanistic games - those which can be played in any sense "perfectly", such as a grid, Prallian scope, 'nkraytle, chess, Farnic dimensions - can be traced to civilisations lacking a realistic view of the universe (let alone the reality). They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine-sentience societies.

The very first-rank games acknowledge the element of chance, even if they rightly restrict raw luck. To attempt to construct a game on any other lines, no matter how complicated and subtle the rules are, and regardless of the scale and differentiation of the playing volume and the variety of the powers and attibutes of the pieces, is inevitably to schackle oneself to a conspectus which is not merely socially but techno-philosophically lagging several ages behind our own. As a historical exercise it might have some value, As a work of the intellect, it's just a waste of time. If you want to make something old-fashioned, why not build a wooden sailing boat, or a steam engine? They're just as complicated and demanding as a mechanistic game, and you'll keep fit at the same time."
— Iain M. Banks (The Player of Games)

"My dad said to me a few years ago: "There's no harm in thinking." We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons.

He said, "You can't expect people not to think. Not to know things just because they COULD be bad."

I said, "Yeah, but then they built it and a hundred thousand people died."

My dad laughed and said there were a lot of steps between the thinking and the doing.

Which I know, duh. All I was saying is that when you think of doing something, you don't always know the consequences. For a while people THOUGHT about building the bomb, but nothing happened. In the end it was a lot of different people doing a lot of different things, most of which had nothing to do with the bomb, that did make it happen.

I think about that sometimes. Who was the person who had the first thought, the one that started it all?

And after they had the thought, what was the first thing they did?

I know my uncle never thought, Hey, all this great science- one day I'll use it to kill a whole bunch of people. You just look at his picture; he's not that kind of person.

And yet, I guess in a way he sort of is."
— Mariah Fredericks (Head Games)

"Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy."
— Henry Jenkins, MIT

""Ladies and gentleman, let the seventy forth hunger games begin!""
— -suzanne collins

"(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section)

I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey."
— Nick Hornby (The Polysyllabic Spree)

"It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. "
— Robert Lynd

"Video games have ruined my life...Good thing I have two extra lives left!!!!!!"
— Unknown Video Game Lover

"Only the savage regard the endurance of pain as the measure of worth."
— The Cat - American McGee's Alice

"When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening any more."
— Florence Griffith Joyner

"It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind."
— Pauline Clarke (The Return of the Twelves)

"Food to eat and games to play.
Tell me why, tell me why.
Serve it out and eat it up.
Have a try, have a try.
"
— Brian Jacques

""Flight is essential,But i can't let my fear show.""
— Suzaine Collins

"All other trades are contained in that of war.

Is that why war endures?

No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.

That's your notion.

The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."
— Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West)

"Whenever I meet someone (from western countries) whom I don't know, he/she always asks "Do you play outdoor games?" Well! Ofcourse! Once I played billiards in open roof free air cafe. :D"
— Amanullah Ashraf

"I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball."
— Rory Stewart

"How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules."
— Caroline Stevermer (Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country)

"Their only chance to mix with royalty was while they played Bezique. They never played any other game but this one that had grown out of the French court: it was the game of the cavaliers, a game of waiting between battles."
— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán (Keepers of the House)

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."
— Pierre de Coubertin

"I believe in God. Ge us the secret of my success. He gives people talent."
— Noureddine Morceli

"The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours."
— Peggy Fleming

"The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself."
— Dawn Fraser

"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
— Pierre de Coubertin

"There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition."
— Mary Lou Retton

"Forget turtle shells. We're just gonna blow up the whole damn track!"
— Kevin Pereira Attack of the Show E3 '09

"Here's a riddle: When is a Croquet Mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be."
— American McGee's Alice

"Yugi, you little *! You son of a *in' * * *. I'm going to tear off your * and shove 'em right up your * * * * and then * * * * on your * * * * * * * in the * * * * * and * * you * * and then you'll have to * sideways. * * * *.
-Pharoh cursing Yugi"
— LittleKuriboh, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series