Quotes from Suzanne Collins

That leaves Haymitch. Drunken, cranky, confrontational Haymitch, who I just poured a basin of ice water on.

So well intended, and yet so insulting

the red taillights. "Then you can't fail.

Gregor bluntly. "As our guest, I hope," replied Vikus. "Although Queen Luxa has no doubt ordered

I'm also giggling, which I think I've done maybe never in my lifetime.

El foc s'escampa! I si nosaltres cremem, us cremareu amb nosaltres!

There was nothing left that anyone could do to him now. There was nothing left to fear.

A chill runs through me. Am I really that cold and calculating?

A token of the boy with the bread. A

No té res d'especial, només és un lloc on jo era feliç.

You've got to stop that," I say. But since I'm already scooping up the stuff, it's not too convincing

It's enough to die of

Katniss will pick whoever it will break her heart to give up," or even "whoever she can't live without." Those would have implied I was motivated by a kind of passion.

every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that? Effie's

We rats have a name for someone like you. You're a rager.

am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Haymitch said you wanted to talk to me," I say. "Look at you, for starters." It's like he's waiting for me to transform into a hybrid drooling wolf right before his eyes.

A veces, Coriolanus se preguntaba si los debajan allí para recordarles a los ciudadanos lo que habían sufrido. La gente tenía muy mala memoria. Era necesario que esquivaran escombros, que arrancaran los mugrientos cupones de racionamiento y asistieran en los Juegos del Hambre para mantener la guerra viva en su recuerdo, El olvido daba lugar al exceso de confianza, y entonces volverían todos a la casilla de salida.

Te'n recordes? —em diu—. Aquí és on em vas fer aquell petó. […] — Em pensava que no te'n recordaves —dic. — Hauria d'estar mort per oblidar-ho. I potser ni així —em diu—.

I do not take orders from you, Overlander. Let us be clear on this from the start.

You're not very big, are you? Or particularly pretty?

That's despicable, but I'm not sure it's beneath me. If it's true, it would be kindest to kill Peeta here and now. But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

my best friend predicts I will choose the person who I think I "can't survive without.