Top 25 Quotes by Suzanne Collins of 846 - Page 33

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

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.

Suzanne Collins

Mistake, Optimistic, Medicine

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.

Suzanne Collins

Trying, Want, Forget

Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.

Suzanne Collins

Cat, Attention, Cubes

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1176, Scholastic Inc.

And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible.

Suzanne Collins

Wall, Two, Space

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1208, Scholastic Inc.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

Suzanne Collins

Mother, Children, Thinking

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow

Suzanne Collins

Bed, Green, Grass

Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.

Suzanne Collins

Strong, Heart, Silence

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.839, Scholastic Inc.

"Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better run now, Fire Girl," says Thresh. I don't need to be told twice. I flip over and my feet dig into the hard-packed earth as I run away from Thresh and Clove and the sound of Cato's voice. Only when I reach the woods do I turn back for an instant. Thresh and both large backpacks are vanishing over the edge of the plain into the area I've never seen. Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile; she can't be saved.

Suzanne Collins

Girl, Running, Pain

"The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

Only.. I want to do die as myself

Suzanne Collins

Want, Roof, Dies

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

Suzanne Collins

Wish, Fabric, Retrospect

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.494, Scholastic Inc.

Whatever it takes to break you.

Suzanne Collins

Break, Whatever It Takes

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.

Suzanne Collins

Lunch, Waiting, Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.111, Scholastic Inc.

Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.

Suzanne Collins

Home, Thinking, Years

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.

Suzanne Collins

Years, Would Be, Alive

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.349, Scholastic Inc.

There are much worse games to play.

Suzanne Collins

Games, Play, Katniss

Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.786, Scholastic UK

Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

Suzanne Collins

Cake, Katniss, Dying

You can’t miss your schedule. Every morning, you’re supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside of your forearm with your schedule for the day in a sickly purple ink. 7:00—Breakfast. 7:30—Kitchen Duties. 8:30—Education Center, Room 17. And so on. The ink is indelible until 22:00—Bathing

Suzanne Collins

Tattoo, Morning, Wall

"What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?" Finnick asks. "No," I say. "No," Finnick repeats. "Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance." He eyes Peeta for a moment. "Except maybe Peeta."

Suzanne Collins

Taken, Eye, Past

"Catching Fire". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2009.

As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.

Suzanne Collins

Glasses, Alcohol, Mind

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

Suzanne Collins

Catching On, Desperate Measures, Catching Fire

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

Suzanne Collins

Katniss, Romance, Hunger

Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.252, Scholastic Inc.

Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.

Suzanne Collins

Apples, Cheese

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.313, Scholastic Inc.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

Suzanne Collins

Doubt, Facts, Leading Me

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

"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."

Suzanne Collins

Block, Animal, Hands

"Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.