The Hunger Games Trilogy

by Suzanne Collins

So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents — even the most despicable — get special treatment.

Once I had outlived my usefulness, I was expendable.

Let the Capitol and the districts run one another into the ground and then sauntered in to take power.

In fact, many are calling for a complete annihilation of those who held Capitol citizenship.

she's calling for genocide???

“What has been proposed is that in lieu of eliminating the entire Capitol population, we have a final, symbolic Hunger Games, using the children directly related to those who held the most power.”

“Was this Plutarch’s idea?” asks Haymitch. “It was mine,” says Coin. “It seemed to balance the need for vengeance with the least loss of life. You may cast your votes.”

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Fire beats roses again.

Machines from the Capitol break ground for a new factory where we will make medicines. Although no one seeds it, the Meadow turns green again.