Quotes from Suzanne Collins

Her eyes are gray, but not like those of people from the Seam. They're very pale, as if almost all the color has been sucked out of them.

I don't even know why you bothered to put Finnick and me through training, Plutarch," I say.

Das Feuer breitet sich aus!", schreie ich jetzt, damit Snow auch ja kein Wort verpasst. "Und wenn wir brennen, brennen Sie mit!

It made the difference between my life and death.

The place did kind of resemble a locker room if locker rooms were gorgeous and smelled good.

They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

Johanna Mason is naked again and oiling her skin down for a wrestling lesson.

When I make a pretty good hook (...) she gives me a toothless smile and an unintelligeble comment I think might be praise.

He's sitting alone at the kitchen table, a half-emptied bottle of white liquor in one fist, his knife in the other. Drunk as a skunk.

He said, See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner." -Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games

Sejanus. "My friend, your life has just begun!" And then Coriolanus was laughing; they both were. "So this isn't our ruin?" "I'd call it our salvation.

When we're called to eat, Haymitch pounces on me immediately. "So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality." "They saw her shoot," says Peeta with a smile.

Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life.

I told you we should have rescued the boy first.

He tucks me in and says good night but I catch his hand and hold him there. A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue.

Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.

I like Hazelle. Respect her. The explosion that killed my father took out her husband as well, leaving her with three boys and a baby due any day.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness," Peeta points out. "Except possibly when it comes to you.

suddenly opened its wings to reveal two patches of dazzling white as it lifted its beak in song. Coriolanus felt sure he'd spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.

A few hours later, I am dressed in what will either be the most sensational or the deadliest costume in the opening ceremonies.

in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Lo cojo de la mano con fuerza, preparándome para las cámaras y temiendo el momento en que no me quede más remedio que dejarlo marchar.

He tells the hiustory of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once North America.

I want to die as myself.