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“They will not use my tears for their entertainment.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I love you like all-fire.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She’s not an easy person; she’s like me, Peeta always says. But she was smarter than me, or luckier.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“And while Lenore Dove will forever be my true love, Louella is my one and only sweetheart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I know that every year for my birthday, I will get a new pair of tributes, one girl and one boy, to mentor to their deaths. Another sunrise on the reaping.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Dove color: Warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint. Her color. Her bird. Her name.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.” — David Hume”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Fire is catching, she’d say, but if this one burns down the arena, I say good riddance.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I’m entirely the Capitol’s plaything. They will use me for their entertainment and then kill me, and the truth will have no say in it.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Like all the Covey, music in her blood. But not like them, too. Less interested in pretty melodies, more in dangerous words. The kind that lead to rebel acts. The kind that got her arrested twice.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I run for Louella, but I run for Woodbine, too, because he’ll never run again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“. Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“They will not use our tears for their entertainment.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I dismount the chariot and lay Louella down, taking a step back so Snow can’t pretend he doesn’t see her broken little bird body. Then I gesture to him and begin to applaud, giving credit where credit is due.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I don't want to beg. Or plead for my life. I want to go out with my head up.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Because the reaping’s going to happen no matter what I believe. Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“I would welcome death, if it wasn’t for my promise to Lenore Dove that I would somehow keep the sun from rising on the reaping.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“A cannon fires. Somewhere, Beetee’s heart breaks into fragments so small it can never be repaired.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“It’s okay to cry around Mags.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“They’re punishing him by making him mentor Ampert.” “That’s a special kind of vicious. Would you want your family to be here?” “I can’t think of anything worse.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping