The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset Quotes

“It's the things we love most, that destroy us.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair”
― Suzanne Collins , The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“Well you are a piece of work aren't you?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“If I burn, you burn with me”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Dead, but not allowed to die.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“Throw me to the wolves and I’ll return leading the pack.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Isn’t my costume awful? My stylist’s the biggest idiot in the Capitol. Our tributes have been trees for forty years under her. Wish I’d gotten Cinna. You look fantastic.” Girl talk.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“I almost forgot! Happy Hunger Games!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“He lives alone, no wife or children, most of his waking hours drunk. I don’t want to end up like that.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of the children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parents can’t give. More food. Now that we’re rich, she’ll send some home with them. But often in the old days, there was nothing to give and the child was past saving, anyway. And here in the Capitol they’re vomiting for the pleasure of filling their bellies again and again. Not from some illness of body or mind, not from spoiled food. It’s what everyone does at a party. Expected. Part of the fun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“May the odds be ever in your Favour”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“We’re going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don’t look so suspicious; it’s worked before.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“They might. But you’re playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that’s where you find their vulnerabilities,”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“I am going back into the arena.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“May the odds be ever in your favor”
― Susan Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“It takes ten times as long to pull yourself together as it does to fall apart”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games/Mockingjay/Catching Fire

“Peeta, who spends much of the night roaming the train, hears me screaming as I struggle to break out of the haze of drugs that merely prolong the horrible dreams. He manages to wake me and calm me down. Then he climbs into bed to hold me until I fall back to sleep.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“hear Peeta’s voice in my head. She has no idea. The effect she can have. Obviously meant to demean me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Peeta rolls his eyes at Haymitch. “She has no idea. The effect she can have.” He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Because you have a weakness for beautiful thing and I don't" I say with an air of superiority "They would lure you into their Capitol ways and you'd be lost entirely.”
"Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness,”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy: Catching Fire/ Mockingjay in Traditional Chinese (3 Volumes) ("Ji E You Xi San Bu Qu")

“I wish she was dead,” he says. “I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch — this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

“It takes some adjusting from a bow to a gun, but by the end of the day, I’ve got the best score in my class.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Happy Hunger Games!” He plucks a few blackberries from the bushes around us. “And may the odds —” He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy

“His skin, his whole being, radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don’t try to move away. Why should I, anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. “I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy