“There are much worse games to play.”
— Suzanne Collins“Aim higher in case you fall short.”
— Suzanne Collins“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
— Suzanne Collins“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
— Suzanne Collins“You love me. Real or not real?I tell him, Real.”
— Suzanne Collins“You have a... remarkable memory.I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”
— Suzanne Collins“We could do it, you know.What?Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
— Suzanne Collins“I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.”
— Suzanne Collins“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”
— Suzanne Collins“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”
— Suzanne Collins“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
— Suzanne Collins“Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.”
— Suzanne Collins“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”
— Suzanne Collins“Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”
— Suzanne Collins“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”
— Suzanne Collins“Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
— Suzanne Collins“It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”
— Suzanne Collins“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”
— Suzanne Collins“Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.”
— Suzanne Collins“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”
— Suzanne Collins“You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future.”
— Suzanne CollinsIf we burn, you burn with us!
— Suzanne Collins