Rebecca Barrow

“The ability to control things. Yes, that was what he’d loved best of all.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Coriolanus to the rescue, Livia to the nearest exit.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“His girl. His. Here in the Capitol, it was a given that Lucy Gray belonged to him, as if she’d had no life before her name was called out at the reaping. Even that sanctimonious Sejanus believed she was something he could trade for. If that wasn’t ownership, what was? With her song, Lucy Gray had repudiated all that by featuring a life that had nothing to do with him, and a great deal to do with someone else. Someone she referred to as “lover,” no less. And while he had no claim on her heart — he barely knew the girl! — he didn’t like the idea of anyone else having it either. Although the song had been a clear success, he felt somehow betrayed by it. Even humiliated.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes