Quotes from Suzanne Collins

One of my few pleasures in 13 is watching the handful of pampered Capitol "rebels" squirming as they try to fit in.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. I try to follow Dr. Aurelius's advice, just going through the motions, amazed when one finally has meaning again.

No hace falta, mis pesadillas suelen ser sobre perderte, así que se me pasa cuando me doy cuenta de que estás a mi lado.

But other people had plans as well.

I heard her singing.

countering him. The call does happen, a decision is made, and by evening I'm suited up in my Mockingjay outfit, with my bow slung over my shoulder and an earpiece that connects

swing my legs off the bed and slide into my hunting boots. Supple leather that has molded to my feet. I pull on trousers, a shirt, tuck my long dark braid up into a cap, and

One man in a fluffy robe holds only an overripe banana.

Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself

The smell of blood . . . it was on his breath.

Life in District 12 isn't really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.

Haymitch isn't among our company. When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldn't face it." "Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted a day off, more likely," I say. "I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle,' " says Plutarch.

How my rescue was arranged from the beginning? And finally, how our mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, betrayed us both for a cause he pretended to have no interest in?

We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies. -Haymitch Abernathy

I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play.

I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy,

She didn't fall off the bridge! The snow would look different where she was standing!" Maude Ivory insisted. "Lucy Gray, which is it?" "It's a mystery, sweetheart. Just like me. That's why it's my song," Lucy Gray answered.

but I like katniss better. Has a nice ring to it.

notice the lines that have formed between Peeta's eyebrows. He has guessed or he has been told. But the Capitol has not killed or even punished him.

Today I might lose both of them.

start to object but he puts a finger to my lips.

I'm getting the white liquor because a few weeks ago he ran out and there was none for sale and he had a withdrawal, shaking and screaming at terrifying things only he could see.

If we burn... You burn with us!