Quotes from Suzanne Collins

What about you?" "Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.

Don't let him take you from me.

In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like... But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen

While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.

Because...because...she came here with me.

I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve.

So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.

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?

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

Oh, the fun we two have together.

As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.

I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.

This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.

I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.' Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out.' I reply

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.