Quotes from Suzanne Collins

the evil thing is inside, not out.

To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents - even the most despicable - get special treatment.

No has hecho daño a nadie..., les has dado una oportunidad. Sólo tienen que ser lo suficientemente valientes para aprovecharla.

Wheres lover boy???

No soporto a la gente que se cree moralmente superior. Nadie la soporta.

I WILL KILL SNOW.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

Well, I've spent a lot of time in your libraries at night," said Ripred. "You come up and read books?" asked Gregor. "Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me," he said.

It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.

I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. The Capitol seal on a wing glows clearly through the flames. 'Fire is catching!' I am shouting now, determined that he will not miss a word. 'And if we burn, you burn with us!

I call him my friend, but in the last year it's seemed too casual a word for what Gale is to me. A pang of longing shoots through my chest. If only he was with me now! But of course, I don't want that. I don't want him in the arena where he'd be dead in a few days. I just... I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. Does he miss me? He must.

Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.

Want a sugar cube?

I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

Chins up smiles on - Effie Trinket

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

That I knew I'd misjudged you. That you do love him. I'm not saying in what way. Maybe you don't even know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him.

Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.

I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!

To me, there's no point in talking about things that might have been.

We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?

If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.