Quotes from Suzanne Collins

Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred. "You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters," said Vikus. "Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters," answered Ripred.

I almost forgot! Happy Hunger Games!

there's only one future, if I want to keep those I love alive and stay alive myself. I'll have to marry Peeta.

Katniss! Katniss! I can hear my name called from all sides. Everyone wants my kisses.

It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, "I think you'd be pretty in any color." The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you.

I can't help laughing, really laughing, for the first time in months. Peeta just shakes his head like I've lost my mind - and maybe I have, a little.

My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers' table. I hear shouts of alarm as people stumble back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig's mouth and pins it to the wall behind it. Everyone stares at me in disbelief. "Thank you for your consideration," I say. Then I give a slight bow and walk straight towards the exit without being dismissed.

If you hit flesh, you're rewarded with a burst of fake blood. Our dummies are soaked in red.

It's as if someone fashioned a small golden bird and then attached a ring around it. The bird is connected to the ring only by its wing tips.

No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion," I tell him. But this just makes him laugh. I have to let it go. There's no point in trying to dictate what Gale thinks. Which, if I'm honest, is one reason I trust him.

The frantic voice of Claudius Templesmith shouts above them. "Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you — the tributes of District Twelve!

Finnick Odair is something of a living legend in Panem. Since he won the Sixty-fifth Hunger Games when he was only fourteen, he's still one of the youngest victors. Being from District 4, he was a Career, so the odds were already in his favour, but what no trainer could claim to have given him was his extraordinary beauty. Tall, athletic, with golden skin and bronze-coloured hair and those incredible eyes.

Peeta rolls his eyes at Haymitch. "She has no idea. The effect she can have.

I know every arrow must count, and they do. In the eerie light,

This is the day of the reaping.

There wasn't. But there should be, he thought, given how fractured families were by the war. There should be a place for anyone who cared for you at all. In fact, maybe that should be the question to start with: Who cares about you? Or even better, Who can you count on?

Well, you better learn fast. You've got about as much charm as a dead slug," says Haymitch.

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If peeta and I were both die, or they thought we were…

Maybe . . . because for the first time . . . there was a chance I could keep him,

Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.

The implications that I could so readily dispose of Peeta, that I'm in love with Gale, that the whole thing has been an act.

If history teaches you anything, it's how to make the unwilling comply.

The phrase Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free is the most troubling because at first you think he's talking about when he told her to flee, presumably to safety. But then you wonder if he meant for her to run to him. To death.