Quotes About Sacrifice

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch — this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. "Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

it means that I will never stop owing Finnick Odair. Ever. So how can I kill him in his sleep?

Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him.

Las reglas de los Juegos del Hambre son sencillas: en castigo por la rebelión, cada uno de los doce distritos debe entregar a un chico y una chica, llamados tributos, para que participen. Los veinticuatro tributos se encierran en una enorme arena al aire libre en la que puede haber cualquier cosa, desde un desierto abrasador hasta un páramo helado. Una vez dentro, los competidores tienen que luchar a muerte durante un periodo de varias semanas; el que quede vivo, gana.

Suzanne Collins

It's Primrose Everdeen.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. There is no District 12. I am the Mockingjay. I brought down the Capitol. President Snow hates me. He killed my sister. Now I will kill him. And then the Hunger Games will be over.

Katniss . . . he's still trying to keep you alive.

Trying to shout her name above the roar. I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I think she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

Yes, it's great to have allies as long as you can ignore the thought that you'll have to kill them.

What does he mean, to drive them to a place that allows no return?

The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat. "No, Katniss! No! You can't go!" But the ones I hated are winning, and if she clings to me, she'll be lost as well. "Prim, let go!" And finally she does.

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins

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.

Primrose Everdeen.

Instead,I watched myself get shot on tv

a third gets eaten by a pack of those fluffy squirrels,

Want a sugar cube?" he says, offering his hand, which is piled high. "They're supposed to be for the horses, but

I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,

If he had thought at one time that he wanted something I couldn't give him, I hoped that now he knew that in truth he did get everything ... everything I had to give, the best of me.

They had all come here to have their babies in secret and to give up their flesh and blood for adoption. In Alice's mind, the rooms and the hallway echoed with their silent tears; the carpets absorbed their sorrow and the curtains soaked up their despair

Love isn't always about keeping someone. Sometimes it's about letting them go

If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.