Quotes from Suzanne Collins

Tiny, searing stabs. Wherever the droplets of mist touch my skin. "Run!" I scream at the others. "Run!" Finnick snaps awake instantly, rising to counter an enemy. But when he sees the wall of fog, he tosses a still-sleeping Mags onto his back and takes off. Peeta is on his feet but not as alert. I grab his arm and begin to propel him through the jungle after Finnick.

How about my head?" teased Lucy Gray. Coriolanus leaned over and kissed her. "Okay, that's a start.

I will never have a life with Gale even if I want to.

She could fly around District 12 all she liked, but she and her mockingjays could never harm him again.

Then be kind, Coryo," she snapped. "And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.

Dean Casca Highbottom, the man credited with the creation of the Hunger Games,

Even if the rebel forces could somehow overthrow the Capitol, you can be sure President Snow's last act would be to cut Peeta's throat. No. I will never get him back. So then dead is best.

Así que, después, cuando me susurra: -Me amas. ¿Real o no? Yo respondo: -Real.

There was nothing to do but keep moving forward and make the moments count.

Sería mejor si fuera más fácil odiarlo.

Somos seres inconstantes y estúpidos con mala memoria y un don para la autodestrucción.

Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be too easy to lose.

If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life . . . then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that was for sure. And if you couldn't trust them, who could you trust? All bets were off.

In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a region known as Appalachia. Even hundreds of years ago, they mined coal here. Which is why our miners have to dig so deep.

Damas y caballeros, ¡que empiecen los Septuagésimos Cuartos Juegos del Hambre!

The smell of blood... it was on his breath. What does he do? I think. Drink it? I imagine him sipping it from a teacup. Dipping a cookie into the stuff and pulling it out dripping red.

There are still moments when you can tell something slips into her brain and another world blinds her to us. But a few words from Finnick call her back

I protect Prim in every way I can, but I'm powerless against the reaping.

It feels like such a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again.

You're the mockingjay Katniss. While you live, the revolution lives.

If she cries, he will nose his way into her arms and curl up there until she calms down and falls asleep. I'm so glad I didn't drown him.

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

Tu sei la ghiandaia imitratrice, Katniss. Finché sei viva, vive anche la rivoluzione.