Quotes from Suzanne Collins

I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.

Not to you maybe," she said. "But it matters the world having someone show up like I mattered.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true...

Coriolanus winced a little. For a decade now, though the rebels had been silent, his grandmother had not.

Buttercup, miserable even with Prim's constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.

That the Careers have been better fed growing up is actually to their disadvantage, because they don't know how to be hungry. Not like Rue and I do.

I hope old new doesn't haunt new you. We've already got enough ghosts between us.

I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit.

But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type

It's one thing to speak of humans' essential nature theoretically, another to consider it when a fist is smashing into your mouth.

He knew this would be easier if he wasn't such an exceptional person. The best and the brightest humanity had to offer. The youngest to pass the officer candidate test.

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.

I will die, in my own small way, undefeated.

I take Peeta's face in my hands. "Don't worry. I'll see you at midnight.

Yes, she laid down her life taunting her tribute with a sandwich, thought Coriolanus. Maybe her gravestone could read, "Casualty of cheap laughs.

And you didn't have to like your family. The bond was a given.

I just need five more minutes, he pleaded with the universe. Even two will do. The universe ignored him.

We're gonna kill you. Just like we did your pathetic little ally... what was her name? Rue? Well first Rue, then, you, and I think we'll just let nature take care of Lover Boy. How's that sound?

What am I going to do? I take a deep breath. My arms rise slightly—as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me—then come to rest at my sides. "I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

but something about the mockingjays repelled him. He distrusted their spontaneous creation. Nature running amok. They should die out, and die out soon.

I have to admit I didn't see it coming. I saw a multitude of other things. Being publicly humiliated, tortured, and executed. Fleeing through the wilderness, pursued by Peacekeepers and hovercraft. Marriage to Peeta with our children forced into the arena. But never that I myself would have to be a player in the Games again.

Hearts been jumping just like a rabbit. Blood keeps pumping but that's just habit.

Don't let him take you from me. Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. No. I don't want to… I clench his hands to the point of pain. Stay with me. His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.