Quotes from Suzanne Collins

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.

Peeta: You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you. Finnick: Oh, Peeta. Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?

People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.

Oh, well. At least my blood is flowing.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there's some of that too.

I don't want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

It's not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

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.

No," Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.' Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

And if even the most innocent among us turn to killers in the Hunger Games, what does that say? That our essential nature is violent," Snow explained. "Self-destructive," Dean Highbottom murmured

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.

No matter what I do, I'm hurting someone." - Katniss Everdeen

And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.

And when again it's morning, they' ll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm

The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments. They say the food is excellent

That was Mahogany!!