Quotes from Suzanne Collins

Aim higher in case you fall short." ? Catching Fire

I've no use for liars. What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?

Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her." There's a long pause. "I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her then.

Tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today

I'm not convinced that we are all as inherently violent as you say, but it takes very little to bring the beast to the surface, at least under the cover of darkness. I

Rue drawing her last breath in my arms. And the song. I get to sing every note of the song. Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.

But the real star of the evening is food.

Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need.

She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.

I feel like dough, being kneaded and reshaped again and again.

your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true,

Katniss...how do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you...in Thirteen..." He inhales sharply, as if fighting for air; his eyes look insane. "Dead by morning!

Aprieto los ojos con fuerza e intento llegar a él a través cientos de kilómetros de distancia, enviarle mis pensamientos, hacerle saber que no está solo. Pero lo está, y yo no puedo ayudarlo. [pp. 17]

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

Everybody seems to know my secrets before I know them myself

Good hunting partners are hard to find.

But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? It doesn't change anything. It doesn't make things fair. It doesn't fill our stomachs. In fact it scares off nearby game.

I just keep wishing, I could think of a way, to show to them that they don't own me. That if I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me. Does that make sense? Yeah. I just can't afford to think that way.

Where's Lover Boy? Oh, I see. You were gonna help him, right? Well that's sweet. It's too bad you couldn't help your little...friend. That little girl? What was her name again? Rue? Well, we killed her. And now...we're gonna kill you." -Clove, The Hunger Games

Sometimes Coriolanus wondered if the debris had been left there to remind the citizens of what they had endured. People had short memories. They needed to navigate the rubble, peel off the grubby ration coupons, and witness the Hunger Games to keep the war fresh in their minds.

It was particularly vexing because the bulk of the Snow family fortune had also been invested in munitions — but in District 13.

So well intended, and yet so insulting. - Gale Hawthorne

I cross to Peeta and wrap my arms around him, and for a while we all stay silent.