Quotes from Suzanne Collins

He lives alone, no wife or children, most of his waking hours drunk. I don't want to end up like that.

Does everyone look younger asleep?

Hey, Haymitch, if you're not too drunk, we could use a little something for our skin." Katniss, Catching Fire

An old memory that surfaces. A late primrose preserved between the pages. Strange bits of happiness, like the photo of Finnick and Annie's newborn son.

She shook her head in disbelief and laughed. "Okay, okay, everybody. This is . . . this is maybe the best night of my life.

turn to Rue's family. "But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim.

Time to say thank you and farewell! trills Effie at my elbow. It's one of those moments when I just love her compulsive punctuality. We collect Cinna and Portia, and she escorts us around to say good-bye to important people, then herds us to the door.

In his hands, I am again a mockingjay.

I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me in some kind of monster that I'm not.

I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet. 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.

Povero Finnick. E' la prima volta che ti capita di non sembrare carino?" lo stuzzico. "Mi sa di sì. E' una sensazione del tutto nuova. Come hai fatto tu, in tutti questi anni?

I'm sorry. About screaming at you yesterday. I've heard worse, she says. You've seen how people are, when someone they love is in pain. Someone they love. The words numb my tongue as if it's been packed in snow coat. Of course, I love Gale. But what kind of love does she mean? What do *I* mean when I say I love Gale?

But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse , volunteers are all but extinct.

Pero siento como si conociera a Rue...La veo en las flores amarillas que crecen en la Pradera junto a mi casa. La veo en los sinsajos que cantan en los arboles. Pero mas que nada, la veo en mi hermana Prim.

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.

The real sports of the Hunger Games is watching the tributes kill one another

Real rebels don't put a secret symbol on something as durable as jewelry. They put it on a wafer of bread that can be eaten in a second if necessary.

Excellent! You almost look like a human being now!

And I'm left staring out the window, watching District 12 disappear, with all my good-byes still hanging on my lips.

Trust is important. I think it's more important than love.

Come see, Gradma'am!" It was another nickname coined by little Tigris, who'd found "Grandma," and certainly "Nana," insufficient for someone so imperial.

Eu vou ser o Tordo.

Boggs quickly examines my face, then scoops me up and jogs for the runway. Halfway there, I puke on his bulletproof vest. It's hard to tell because he's short of breath, but I think he sighs.