The Hunger Games Trilogy

by Suzanne Collins

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

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

“Panem et Circenses translates into ‘Bread and Circuses.’ The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”

Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like.

We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.