Quotes from Suzanne Collins

I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.

I'll tell them how I survive it.

An immersion into greenery and sunlight will surely help me sort out my thoughts.

For me, you're perfect.

The Capitol has no end of creative ways to kill people. I imagine these things and I'm terrified, but let's face it: They've been lurking in the back of my brain, anyway. I've been a tribute in the Games. Been threatened by the president. Taken a lash across my face. I'm already a target.

They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it. Carrying him was a little easier, but not much.

It is widely believed that the snails did not even know they overthrew the shiners, so nonexistent was the resistance," said Howard.

What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them. 93

Katniss, the girl on fire, has left behind her flickering flames and bejeweled gowns and soft candlelight frocks. She is as deadly as fire itself.

It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change. There

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive," says Peeta.

If the careers want me, let them find me.

We're going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don't look so suspicious; it's worked before.

Pueden engordarme, pueden arreglarme de pies a cabeza, vestirme y ponerme de nuevo guapa; pueden diseñar nuevas armas de ensueño que cobren vida en mis manos, pero nunca jamás me volverán a lavar el cerebro para que necesite usarlas. Ya no siento lealtad hacia esos monstruos llamados seres humanos, a pesar de ser uno de ellos.

And she's my fiancee. So if you want to get to him, expect to go through both of us.

I feel that thing again. The thing I only felt once before. In the cave last year, when I was trying to get Haymitch to send us food. I kissed Peeta about a thousand times during those Games and after. But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one had the right to treat them as they have been treated? Yes. This is the thing to remember when fear threatens to swallow me up.

A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta's child could be safe.

She have another fellow?" asks Caesar. I don't know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta. So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can't turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly. I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in my case," says Peeta. Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.

The arena messed us all up pretty good, don't you think? Or do you still feel like the girl who volunteered for your sister?

And that was the voice of Peeta

We have to stop viewing one another as enemies. At this point, unity is essential for our survival.

But better of sad then dead.

A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That's mankind in its natural state.