Suzanne Collins quotes

You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope. (Suzanne Collins)
I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever.
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Remember, we're madly in love, so it‘s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
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You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. It seems to require more explanation. "Because that's what you and I do. Protect each other."
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"I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it," I say.
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You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.
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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.
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Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem.
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Katniss," Gale says softly. I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow. I instinctively raise my hand to block his words but he catches it and holds on tightly. "Don't," I whisper. But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve.
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Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.
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He looks at my hand. "So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”. (Suzanne Collins)
"You're not leaving me here alone," I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out.
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"Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games," says Peeta.
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So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.
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Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.
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I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.
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I'm not their slave," the man mutters. "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato ... and he killed Thresh ... and he killed Clove ... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games.
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Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
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All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.
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Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. (Suzanne Collins)
No wonder I won the games. No decent person ever does.
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And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen back home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.
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My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
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You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.
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