Quotes from Suzanne Collins

Not if Cato comes and kills you.

Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls!

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do

for Katniss Everdeen. At the mention of my name, Peeta's face contorts in effort. "Katniss . . . how do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you . . . in Thirteen . . ." He inhales sharply, as if fighting for air; his eyes look insane. "Dead by morning!

And like a fool, I bought into it.

I got my father's blood." The kind that quickens during a hunt, not an epidemic.

Me pregunto si disfrutará viéndome morir.

No te preocupes, pensaré en algo. Destruir cosas es mucho más fácil que construirlas.

gives a faint shriek and Prim buries her face in her hands, but I feel more like the people I see in the crowd on television. Slightly baffled. What does it mean? Existing pool of victors? Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female . . . I am going

Because you have a weakness for beautiful things, and I don't," I say with an air of superiority, "They would lure you into their Capitol ways, and you'd be lost entirely." "Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness," Peeta points out, "Except perhaps when it comes to you.

Peeta. Blut wie Regentropfen am Fenster. Wie feuchte Erde an den Stiefeln.

Pero ¿destruirlo? No. (...)No destruyes lo que quieres adquirir en el futuro.

Theoretically, we should

Maybe her gravestone could read, "Casualty of cheap laughs.

How about we do the old Q-and-A thing?

You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

clock, he probably won't die in the jungle, so someone's going to have to kill him in battle. Because this is so repellent to think about, my mind frantically tries to change topics. But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow. Not very pretty daydreams for a seventeen-year-old girl, I guess, but

Peeta has asked to be coached separately.

Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Peeta bitterly, "if it weren't for the baby.

My refusal to play the Games on the Capitol's terms is to be my last act of rebellion. So

tengo mucha experiencia en no demostrar mis sentimientos, y eso es lo que hago.

I prefer to think of myself as a legend, but I suppose 'guide' will do.

anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors." Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived

finger to my lips. "It's different for you. I'm not saying it wouldn't be hard. But there are other people