Quotes About Strength

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

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

Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

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.

Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?" "Like I couldn't take you.

Don't let him take you from me.

Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.

They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

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.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.

Courage only counts when you can count.

I wrap my arms around his neck, feel his arms hesitate before they embrace me. Not as steady as they once were, but still warm and strong. A thousand moments surge through me. All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone for ever.

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.

Whatever it takes to break you.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins

Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. "For you." I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.