Quotes About Courage

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. . . .

To show them that I'm more than just a piece in their Games?" I say.

Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

How you've both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district." Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.

Por qué hizo falta que fuera lastimado hasta el límite de su vida para que me diera cuenta? Porque soy egoísta. Soy una cobarde. Soy el tipo de chica que, cuando podría ser útil de verdad, huiría para seguir con vida y abandonaría a los que no la pudieran seguir para que sufrieran y murieran..

Remember, girl on fire," he says, "I'm still betting on you." He

I almost forgot! Happy Hunger Games!

My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers' table. I hear shouts of alarm as people stumble back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig's mouth and pins it to the wall behind it. Everyone stares at me in disbelief. "Thank you for your consideration," I say. Then I give a slight bow and walk straight towards the exit without being dismissed.

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.

Remember. I'm still betting on you girl on fire

It made the difference between my life and death.

They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

I like Hazelle. Respect her. The explosion that killed my father took out her husband as well, leaving her with three boys and a baby due any day.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness," Peeta points out. "Except possibly when it comes to you.

Katniss, the girl who was on fire.

I'll tell them how I survive it.

Katniss, the girl on fire, has left behind her flickering flames and bejeweled gowns and soft candlelight frocks. She is as deadly as fire itself.

If the careers want me, let them find me.

Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one had the right to treat them as they have been treated? Yes. This is the thing to remember when fear threatens to swallow me up.

The arena messed us all up pretty good, don't you think? Or do you still feel like the girl who volunteered for your sister?

But better of sad then dead.

I am going back into the arena.

Well, you know what they say. The show's not over until the mockingjay sings,