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Quotes About Determination

He hastily calls Finnick and Haymitch over and they have a brief but intense conversation that I can see Haymitch isn't happy with. Plutarch seems to win – Finnick's pale but nodding his head by the end of it. As Finnick moves to take my seat before the camera, Haymitch tells him, "You don't have to do this." "Yes, I do. If it will help her.
~ Suzanne Collins
At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.
~ Suzanne Collins
Remember. I'm still betting on you girl on fire
~ Suzanne Collins
I force myself to take deep, slow breaths, feeling quite certain the cameras are on my face. I can't show weakness at this injury. Not if I want help. Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.
~ Suzanne Collins
El fuego se propaga! -grito, decidida a que oiga todas y cada una de mis palabras-. ¡Y si nosotros ardemos, tú arderás con nosotros!
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.
~ Suzanne Collins
If the careers want me, let them find me.
~ Suzanne Collins
Well, you know what they say. The show's not over until the mockingjay sings,
~ Suzanne Collins
We both know they have to have a victor. It can only be one of us. Please, take it. For me.
~ Suzanne Collins
I can only manage to hold on to one simple thought: an image of Snow's face accompanied by the whisper in my head. I will kill you.
~ Suzanne Collins
Boots' courage might only count when she could count, but her ability to love counted all the time.
~ Suzanne Collins
Finnick looks at Johanna and raises his eyebrows. He will not go forward without her.
~ Suzanne Collins
Let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. A cold breeze has sprung
~ Suzanne Collins
Pull it together, Four-Five-One," he says firmly. But you can see him suppressing a smile as he's double-checking the next pod. Positioning the Holo to find the best light in the smoky air. Still facing us as his left foot steps back onto the orange paving stone. Triggering the bomb that blows off his legs.
~ Suzanne Collins
I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you," he
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm sure. I'm completely, entirely, one hundred percent sure." He
~ Suzanne Collins
Besides, he's our best chance of finding her." It takes me a moment to register that the "her" they're referring to is me.
~ Suzanne Collins
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.
~ Suzanne Collins
I thought . . . I'll never compete with that. No matter how much pain I'm in.
~ Suzanne Collins
But at the moment, I excuse myself from thinking about even those I love most. I think only of me. And what lies ahead.
~ Suzanne Collins
Then make one," says Gale. "Even a weak bow is better than no bow at all.
~ Suzanne Collins
It isn't in my nature to go down without a fight, even when things seem insurmountable.
~ Suzanne Collins
Because he never underestimates the cruelty of those we face.
~ Suzanne Collins
The show is not over until the Mockingjay sings
~ Suzanne Collins