Quotes About Adversity

Suzanne Collins

Not if Cato comes and kills you.

No te preocupes, pensaré en algo. Destruir cosas es mucho más fácil que construirlas.

Looking at Prim's face, it's hard to imagine she's the same frail little girl I left behind on reapimg day nine months ago. The combination of that ordeal and all that has followed - the cruelty in the district, the parade of sick and wounded that she often treates herself now if my mother's hands are too full - these things have aged her years. She's grown quite a bit, too; we're practically the same height now, but that isn't what makes her seem so much older.

If the seven of us sitting on this ledge are going to survive, we'll need a miracle. And that's when the miracle happened.

But he [Buttercup] must understand. He must know that the unthinkable has happened and to survive will require previously unthinkable acts. Because hours later, when I come to in my bed, hes there in the moonlight. Crouched beside me, yellow eyes alert, guarding me from the night.

I can only form one clear thought. This is no place for a girl on fire.

No forma part de la meva naturalesa rendir-me sense lluitar, encara que les coses semblin impossibles.

berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans.

I prepare myself for the worst.

He says he'd like to see you." I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet. My palms press into the wall to steady myself. This wasn't part of the plan. I wrote Peeta off in 2. Then I was to go to the Capitol, kill Snow, and get taken out myself. The gunshot was only a temporary setback.

Katniss, there is no district 12

And not even remotely nice. To say that to me after all I've been through." "Yeah. We've all been through a lot. And you're the one who was known for being nice. Not me.

You're not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?

be ever in your favor!" I finish with equal verve. We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared out of your wits.

Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. Like me, for instance. Right now.

and muddy. The long sleeves keep getting caught on thorns and branches as I run through the woods. The pack of muttation tributes draws closer and closer until it overcomes me with hot breath and dripping fangs and I scream myself awake. It's too

Vi drar båda av oss våra kängor och strumpor och även om det blir lite bättre kan jag svära på att han anstränger sig för att knäcka varje kvist vi stöter på (s. 257).

But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

What am I going to tell them about Twelve?" I ask Gale. "I doubt they'll ask for details. They saw it burn. They'll mostly be worried about how you're handling it." Gale touches my cheek. "Like I am.

Wait until I'm in the arena and sic starving wild animals on me.

You have to promise me that you'll fight through it.

Each hour begins a new horror, a new Gamemaker weapon, and ends the previous.

My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.