Quotes from Suzanne Collins

And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

I just needed to hear it." She presses the bundle of pine needles to her nose and closes her eyes. The

Ironically, her logical, if demeaning, reply is the only one that comforts me.

Katniss, I don't think you understand how important you are to the cause. Important people usually get what they want. If you want to keep Peeta safe from the rebels, you can.

i'm very hard to catch, and if they can't catch me they can't kill me so don't count me out.

has dried plums." I

PART I THE ASHES

Como si controlar un elemento de su mundo lo salvara de la ruina.

I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,

Fire is catching!" I am shouting now, determined he will not miss a word of it, "And if we burn, you burn with us!

You mean . . . I could demand that they give Peeta immunity? And they'd have to agree to it?" "I think you could demand almost anything and they'd have to agree to it.

member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

so pleased and grateful was she to have a position in fashion.

No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,

I feel the kind of relief that follows an actual solution. "I should wake you up more often, little duck.

that cold and calculating? Gale didn't say, "Katniss will pick whoever it will break her heart to give up," or even "whoever she can't live without." Those would have implied I was motivated by a kind of passion. But my best friend predicts I will choose the

In some ways, District 13 is even more controlling than the Capitol.

The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away.

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim's warmth

Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking Capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself," says Johanna. "Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.

When my eyes fall on Peeta, whose head rests right by my feet, I see he's awake. I wish I could read what's going on in his mind, that I could go in and untangle the mess of lies. Then I settle for something I can accomplish.

Hey, maybe I should make that a condition of being the Mockingjay.

Com ho pots suportar? En Finnick em mira amb expressió d'incredulitat. —No puc, Katniss! És clar que no. M'allibero dels malsons cada matí per descobrir que l'estat de vigília tampoc no comporta cap alleujament —alguna cosa en la meva expressió fa que s'interrompi—. Més val no rendir-se. Costa deu vegades més recollir les miques d'un mateix que esmicolar-se.