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Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

Suzanne Collins
Fighting, Firsts, Instinct
Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.492, Scholastic Inc.

Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

Suzanne Collins
World, Rue, All Things
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

Suzanne Collins
President Snow, Voice, Overcoming
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

My words hang in the air. I look to the screen, hoping to see them recording some wave of reconciliation going through the crowd. Instead I watch myself get shot on television.

Suzanne Collins
Air, Watches, Looks
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.

Suzanne Collins
Struggle, Mean, Journey
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?" He seems unconvinced. "Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once." "Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you." But more words tumble out. "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.

Suzanne Collins
Sunset, Sleep, Eye

I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.

Suzanne Collins
Voice, Seductive, Secret
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.211, Scholastic Inc.

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

Suzanne Collins
Writing, Character, Thinking

Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway.

Suzanne Collins
Looks
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.289, Scholastic

Beauty that arose out of pain.

Suzanne Collins
Pain, Pressured
Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.504, Scholastic UK

I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.

Suzanne Collins
Self, People, Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.183, Scholastic Inc.

Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.

Suzanne Collins
Stronger, Want, Hunger
"Fictional character: Gale Hawthorne". "The Hunger Games", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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

Suzanne Collins
People, Different, Awful
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.35, Scholastic Inc.

I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this angle.' 'Where is Haymitch, anyway? Isn't he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?' says Peeta. 'With all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,' I say.

Suzanne Collins
Thinking, Flames, Alcohol
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

Suzanne Collins
Book, Might, Humans
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

Suzanne Collins
Hands, Comforting, Dying
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger. "But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.

Suzanne Collins
Squirrels, Hands, Knives
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.

Suzanne Collins
Want, Happens
Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.677, Scholastic UK

Stay with me. Always.

Suzanne Collins
Stay With Me, Mockingjay, Peeta

I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

Suzanne Collins
Thinking, Color, Posies

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

Suzanne Collins
Pay, Firsts, Hardest
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.288, Scholastic Inc.

The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.

Suzanne Collins
Stars, Sick, Lovers
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.601, Scholastic Inc.

That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

Suzanne Collins
Book, Doubt, Anything Goes
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

and when he kissed me i didn't know what to do.

Suzanne Collins
Knows

The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?

Suzanne Collins
Girl, Real, Hatred
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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