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

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

Suzanne Collins
President Snow, Monsters, Despise
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.296, Scholastic

Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.

Suzanne Collins
Watches, Television, Shots
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.171, Scholastic

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.

Suzanne Collins
Dream, Giving, Brain
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

Suzanne Collins
Giving, Rebel, Way

I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.

Suzanne Collins
Mother, Real, Medicine
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.321, Scholastic Inc.

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

Suzanne Collins
Children, Sacrifice, Katniss
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

Suzanne Collins
Flower, Night, Tree

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

Suzanne Collins
Humorous, Catching Fire, Target
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart.

Suzanne Collins
Sweetheart, I Can, Ifs
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.396, Scholastic Inc.

It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death.

Suzanne Collins
Taken, Snow, Impossible
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.162, Scholastic Inc.

I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

Suzanne Collins
Flower, Use, Brushes

So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?” asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. “I don’t see that it makes that much difference. They’ll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

Suzanne Collins
Stupid, Thinking, Odds

I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years. My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her. Cooking, flower arranging, playing the flute. None of them took, although Prim had a knack for all three. Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was non-existent.

Suzanne Collins
Mother, Flower, Passion
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

I'm unaware that my feet are moving to the table until I'm inches from the holograph. My hand reaches in and cups a rapidly blinking green light. Someone joins me, his body tense. Finnick, of course. Because only a victor would see what I see so immediately. The arena. Laced with pods controlled by Gamemakers. Finnick's fingers caress a steady red glow over a doorway. "Ladies and gentlemen..." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

Suzanne Collins
Moving, Voice, Feet
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

Suzanne Collins
Blue, Feet, Green
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1274, Scholastic Inc.

They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.

Suzanne Collins
Girl, Struggle, Eye

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

Suzanne Collins
Mean, Games, Bye
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

Suzanne Collins
Hurt, Home, Kids
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

Suzanne Collins
Wonder, Breathe, Choke
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1003, Scholastic Inc.

I’m in pain. That’s the only way I get your attention

Suzanne Collins
Pain, Attention, Way

Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

Suzanne Collins
Thinking, Gale, Tick
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.

Suzanne Collins
Stylist, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

Maybe . . . because for the first time . . . there was a chance I could keep him,” I say. “So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?” “Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.” And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.

Suzanne Collins
Hurt, Kissing, People

If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.

Suzanne Collins
Compliment, About Yourself, Audience
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

Suzanne Collins
Catching On, Catching Fire, District 12

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