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  • #1
    Suzanne Collins
    “It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #2
    Suzanne Collins
    “What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me...no competition...best thing that ever happened to you..."

    "I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush.

    "Oh, that's right. That what I was thinking," he says.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #3
    Suzanne Collins
    “Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp.

    “I can’t,” he says.”
    Suzanne Collins

  • #4
    Suzanne Collins
    “I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”
    Suzanne Collins

  • #5
    Suzanne Collins
    “I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #6
    Suzanne Collins
    “Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #7
    Suzanne Collins
    “And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #8
    Suzanne Collins
    “We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #9
    Suzanne Collins
    “You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #10
    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.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #11
    Suzanne Collins
    “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

    “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.

    “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.

    “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #12
    Suzanne Collins
    “My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me........”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #13
    Suzanne Collins
    “My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #14
    Suzanne Collins
    “He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown, leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" - he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose - "distracting?”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #15
    Suzanne Collins
    “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #16
    Suzanne Collins
    “But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the Mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #17
    Suzanne Collins
    “Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #18
    Suzanne Collins
    “He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television."

    "Are you and Beetee going?" I ask.

    "As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #19
    Suzanne Collins
    “Because...because...she came here with me.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #20
    Suzanne Collins
    “Katniss, there is no District Twelve...”
    Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

  • #21
    Suzanne Collins
    “Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #22
    Suzanne Collins
    “If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #23
    Suzanne Collins
    “My name is Katniss Everdeen.
    Why am I not dead?
    I should be dead.”
    Suzanne Collins , Mockingjay

  • #24
    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

  • #25
    Phyllis Diller
    “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #26
    “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
    H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land

  • #27
    Chris Rock
    “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
    Chris Rock

  • #28
    C. JoyBell C.
    “No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.”
    C. JoyBell C.



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