Quotes About Adversity

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!

I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when 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.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.

Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.

Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.

People aren't so bad, really," she said. "It's what the world does to them.

Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

Beauty that arose out of pain.

I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

Whatever it takes to break you.

Once I'm on my feet I realize escape might not be so easy.

Suzanne Collins

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 side step that?

Suzanne Collins

So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.

I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out.

But better off sad than dead.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

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. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.