Rebecca Barrow > Rebecca 's Quotes

“When people show you who they are, it is your job to pay attention.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“Here goes my heart again—tick tick tick—and I was so afraid of animals that I forgot about the worst of all predators, the most power-hungry predators on this planet: humans.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“At least it's real. Everything here is fake, fake, fake.'
She tugs on the straps of her backpack and I'm so relieved that I'm an adult. What a nightmare it is to be a teenager, to think there's a place where everyone isn't fake, fake, fake.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“wasted sixteen days of our life in that hospital bed because sure, health is fun, but what good is health without love?”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“I’m not sure that I’m even a whole person. Sometimes I think that everything I do and say…it’s all a reaction to what everyone thinks about me…”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“soon you and the rat will be like Billy Joel’s Brenda and Eddie: divorced!”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“You leave him... you move to another state. But you never leave a man, even when you do.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“Just once I'd like to fall for someone who isn't handicapped by narcissism, but it's too late. I love you.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You're mine and I'm yours. It's written in the stars.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Everyone's born as clean as a whistle—
As fresh as a daisy
And not a bit crazy.
Staying that way's a hard row for hoeing—
As rough as a briar,
Like walking through fire.

This world, it's dark,
And this world, it's scary.
I've taken some hits, so
No wonder I'm wary.
It's why I
Need you—
You're pure as the driven snow.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Why not? If they have merit.” Dr. Gaul tossed the stack of questionnaires onto the table. “What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“She could fly around District 12 all she liked, but she and her mockingjays could never harm him again.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“They were both after all, still children whose lives were dictated by powers above them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Start with that. Chaos. No control, no law, no government at all. Like being in the arena. Where do we go from there? What sort of agreement is necessary if we're to live in peace? What sort of social contract is required for survival?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Roses are red, love; violets are blue.
Birds in the heavens know I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Trust is important. I think it's more important than love. I mean, I love all kinds of things I don't trust. Thunderstorms... white liquor... snakes. Sometimes I think I love them because I can't trust them, and how mixed up is that?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“We don’t charge for tickets, because sometimes hungry people need music the most. But we get hungry, too.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“I’m bad news, all right,” said Coriolanus.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Hey, you found some katniss. Good work, CC.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“And he wanted to keep her. Safe and close at hand. Admired and admiring. Devoted. And entirely, unequivocally his.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You can’t take my sass.
You can’t take my talking.
You can kiss my ass
And then keep on walking.
Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Afraid of everything. If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life . . . then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that was for sure. And if you couldn’t trust them, who could you trust? All bets were off.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Courage in battle was often necessary because of someone else’s poor planning.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Trust is important.” “I think it’s more important than love. I mean, I love all kinds of things I don’t trust. Thunderstorms . . . white liquor . . . snakes. Sometimes I think I love them because I can’t trust them, and how mixed up is that?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes