Suzanne Collins Quotes

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.. Suzanne Collins

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

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.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

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

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

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.. Suzanne Collins

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?. Suzanne Collins

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.. Suzanne Collins

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.. Suzanne Collins

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. . Suzanne Collins

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.. Suzanne Collins

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

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.. Suzanne Collins

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

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't

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?

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.. Suzanne Collins

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.. Suzanne

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel..

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.. Suzanne Collins

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.. Suzanne Collins

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

Because...because...she came here with me.

You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?"
"We have a very big bathtub.

Do you find this...distracting?. Suzanne Collins

Do you find this...distracting?

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.

Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.

There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says.
'Done,' I say.
'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation.
'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I hold up my wrist to show my medical bracelet and realize it's gone.
'See? I can't even remember they took my bracelet.'
(Katniss and Boggs)

That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. 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. And only Peeta can give me that.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.. Suzanne Collins

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

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.

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

Aim higher in case you fall short.. Suzanne Collins

Aim higher in case you fall short.

You could do a lot worse.. Suzanne Collins

You could do a lot worse.

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.. Suzanne Collins

You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

Stay with me.

Always.

But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.

Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

Warmblood now a bloodborne death,
Will rob your body of it's breath
Mark your skin and seal your fate
The Underland becomes a plate

Only.. I want to do die as myself

People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.

Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.

She's Prim's size in diameter.

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television."

"Are you and Beetee going?" I ask.

"As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem et Circenses translates into ‘Bread and Circuses.’ The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.

You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy," said Vikus.
"Oh, I see," said Gregor. "So, when's he coming?"
Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. "I believe he is already here.

Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

And if we burn, you burn with us.

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.

Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

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.

Bukan sifatku untukk kalah tanpa bertarung, bahkan saat kemungkinan untuk menang tampak begitu tipis. -Katniss

I've stopped talking because there's really nothing left to say and there's this piercing sort of pain where my heart is.

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true...

You could live a thousand life times but you will never deserve that boy.

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.

How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking up." Something in my expression stops him. "Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

the evil thing is inside, not out.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

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.

We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."

"Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-

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