Quotes from Suzanne Collins

A fear of the cracked tongue, aching body and fuzzy mind brought on by my previous dehydration creeps into my consciousness.

My advisors were concerned you would be difficult, but you're not planning on being difficult at all, are you?" "No.

I look up into those blue eyes that no amount of dramatic makeup can make truly deadly and remember how, just a year ago, I was prepared to kill him. Convinced he was trying to kill me. Now everything is reversed. I'm determined to keep him alive, knowing the cost will be my own life, but the part of me that is not so brave as I could wish is glad that it's Peeta, not Haymitch, beside me. Our hands find each other without further discussion. Of course we will go into this as one.

El Fuego se propaga, y si nosotros ardemos tu arderas con nosotros

At least Finnick doesn't applaud or act all happy when it's done. He just says, "People should know that happened. And now they do.

Floating on my back, as I am now,

Eyes so black they seem all pupils.

baker's, the smell of fresh bread was so overwhelming

probably no one would have ever even heard of a yak if it hadn't been about the only animal that began with a y.

A mix of human and lizard and who knows what else. White, tight reptilian skin smeared with gore, clawed hands and feet, their faces a mess of conflicting features.

Quizá la chica no se acuerde de mí, aunque sé que me engaño: no se te olvida la cara de la persona que era tu última esperanza.

Good. I'm starving.

The Hunger Games were an opportunity for wealth and a kind of glory not seen elsewhere. Of course, the people of 2 swallowed the Capitol's propaganda more easily than the rest of us. Embraced their ways. But for all that, at the end of the day, they were still slaves.

El odio que siento hacia él, hacia la chica fantasma, hacia todo, es tan real e inmediato que me ahoga. Gale es mío. Yo soy suya. Cualquier otra cosa es inconcebible. ¿Por qué hizo falta que fuera azotado hasta el límite de su vida para que me diera cuenta?

I thought . . . I'll never compete with that. No matter how much pain I'm in.

Susurra: «Puedo encontrarte, puedo llegar hasta ti, quizá te esté observando en estos precisos instantes».

is play my part. Sometimes I listen to them and

Creo que los sucesos aterradores son los más difíciles de erradicar. Al fin y al cabo, son los que por naturaleza recordamos mejor.

There had been times when I didn't honestly know how I felt about him. I still don't, really.

IF WE BURN, YOU BURN WITH US". - Katniss

Hey, Catnip," says Gale. My real name is Katniss, but when I first told him, I had barely whispered it. So he thought I'd said Catnip. Then when this crazy lynx started following me around the woods looking for handouts, it became his official nickname for me. I finally had to kill the lynx because he scared off game. I almost regretted it because he wasn't bad company. But I got a decent price for his pelt.

She gives me a look filled with loathing, like I'm the biggest drag possible on her life. I wonder if this is what it's like to have an older sister who really hates you.

I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My ongoing struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been understaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.

Rocks beat human, always.