Quotes from Suzanne Collins

What sort of agreement is necessary if we're to live in peace? What sort of social contract is required for survival?

Without the threat of death, it wouldn't have been much of a lesson," said Dr. Gaul. "What happened in the arena? That's humanity undressed. The tributes. And you, too. How quickly civilization disappears. All your fine manners, education, family background, everything you pride yourself on, stripped away in the blink of an eye, revealing everything you actually are. A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That's mankind in its natural state.

Coriolanus felt sure he'd spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.

Rue,, la niña que, cuando le preguntas por lo que mas ama en el mundo, contesta que la musica, nada mas y nada menos.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta.

What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism.

You have as much charm as a dead slug

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn't give you that right. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn't give you that right. Nothing does.

aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

sinceramente, a mí nunca me ha resultado atractivo. Quizá sea demasiado guapo o demasiado fácil de obtener, o quizá, simplemente, sea demasiado fácil perderlo.

Maybe he was not cut out to be a lover. Maybe he was more of a loner at heart. Coriolanus Snow, more loner than lover.

Me doy cuenta que sólo una persona quedará herida sin remedio si Peeta muere: yo. -Yo -respondo-, yo te necesito.

We burn, you burn with us.

mentor as anything but an honor. A way to serve the Capitol and perhaps gain a little glory. But she had a point. If the cause wasn't honorable, how could it be an honor to participate in it? He felt confused, then manipulated, then undefended. As if he were more a tribute than a mentor.

I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.

The Capitol had tried to take everything from Lucy Gray, and it had utterley failed.

Ripred held up his paws in mock surprise. "Oh, dear. Is this where we fight to the death? I didn't expect it so soon.

I cannot afford to get upset, to leave this room with puffy eyes and a red nose. Crying is not an option.

A avea ochi pentru frumusete nu e totuna cu o slabiciune, subliniaza Peeta. Poate cu exceptia cazului cand e vorba de tine Katniss.

I watch his hands, his beautiful, capable fingers. Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and deft. Hands that have the power to mine coal but the precision to set a delicate snare. Hands I trust.

Slowly, as I would with a wounded animal, my hand stretches out and brushes a wave of hair from his forehead. He freezes at my touch, but doesn't recoil. So I continue to gently smooth back his hair. It's the first time I have voluntarily touched him since the last arena.

Deciding not to run away is a crucial first step.