Quotes About Conflict

I will never have a life with Gale even if I want to.

And the more I come to know these people, the worse it is. Because, on the whole, I don't hate them. And some I like. And a lot of them are so damaged that my natural instinct would be to protect them. But all of them must die if I'm to save Peeta.

Did you indeed?" said Ripred. "It seems like only yesterday you were a baby bouncing on your grandpa's knee. And now you're starting wars. They grow up so fast.

The real sports of the Hunger Games is watching the tributes kill one another

Johanna, frankly, I could easily kill if it came down to protecting Peeta. Or maybe even just to shut her up. What

we both know the other's survival means our own death

Billy Taupe had crossed her, and he'd ended up dead.

Well, you really made a mess of things,' he says. 'I'm not even done,' I tell him.

We both know they have to have a victor. Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces.

The implications that I could so readily dispose of Peeta, that I'm in love with Gale, that the whole thing has been an act.

He hastily calls Finnick and Haymitch over and they have a brief but intense conversation that I can see Haymitch isn't happy with. Plutarch seems to win – Finnick's pale but nodding his head by the end of it. As Finnick moves to take my seat before the camera, Haymitch tells him, "You don't have to do this." "Yes, I do. If it will help her.

So this is how a war starts.... Not with two armies facing off, waiting for the signal to charge.... It begins much more quietly. In a room, on a field, in a remote tunnel when someone who has power decides the time has come.

Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch

We both know they have to have a victor. It can only be one of us. Please, take it. For me.

But at this point, with only minor victories for the rebels, a cease-fire could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse.

Don't," I whisper. But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise.

Creo que Peeta dio con la tecla al comentar que nos destruyéramos entre nosotros para dejar que otra especie más decente ocupara nuestro lugar. Porque algo falla estrepitosamente en unas criaturas capaces de sacrificar a sus hijos para zanjar sus diferencias. Da igual cómo se justifique.

Suzanne Collins

It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves,

I'm not too upset to answer that." Peeta takes a deep breath and then looks straight into the camera. "I want everyone watching — whether you're on the Capitol or the rebel side — to stop for just a moment and think about what this war could mean. For human beings. We almost went extinct fighting one another before. Now our numbers are even fewer. Our conditions more tenuous.

Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. The

We should kill them all." The words slipped out before he could stop them. "Kill them all? Why?" said Dr. Kay in surprise. "They're unnatural." He tried to twist the comment so it sounded like it came from a bird lover. "Perhaps they'll hurt the other species.

Do you have any idea how much I hate you? I think. You, who have given your talents to the Games?