Quotes About Rebellion

Does anyone have any other comments?" "Wash her face," says Dalton. Everyone turns to him. "She's still a girl and you made her look thirty-five. Feels wrong. Like something the Capitol would do.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

it took Peeta's ploy for me to recognize it. What am I going to do? I take a deep breath. My arms rise slightly — as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me — then come to rest at my sides. "I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

Fire is catching!" I am shouting now, determined he will not miss a word of it, "And if we burn, you burn with us!

In some ways, District 13 is even more controlling than the Capitol.

The Hanging Tree" out loud for ten years, because it's forbidden, but I remember every word. I begin softly, sweetly, as my father did.

We'd have to give everything to the kitchen. But still, we could . . ." I don't have to finish because he knows. We could be aboveground. Out in the woods. We could be ourselves again.

Desearía demostrarle al Capitolio que no soy una pieza más de sus juegos. —Peeta Mellark.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead. . . . "Katniss.

Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free?

keep wishing I could think of a way to . . . to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

I'll be your Mockingjay

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.

I don't want a well-ordered life.... I would die from boredom in a fortnight.

There's quite a difference between skirting the rules and putting musket balls through them.

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

What can I say? You bring out the devil in me." "That's not a comforting thing to tell a pastor's daughter,

It sounds to me like the gods of sneaking out have smiled upon Lucy.

Sometimes we have to argue, fight. That's all there is to it. When people think you're a delinquent, they treat you badly, they disrespect you (like Spencer). This is the only way to get that respect back. Even if that respect is motivated by their fear.

Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion

Panem today Panem tomorrow Panem FOREVER!!!

there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.