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It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Talking, Topics
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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

Suzanne Collins
Home, Katniss, House
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

Suzanne Collins
Hate, Home, Years
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Thinking, Leaving
Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.343, Scholastic Inc.

Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren’t for me. “With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.

Suzanne Collins
Baby, Spring, Home
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.312, Scholastic Inc.

I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Mind, Pay
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

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 when we get 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.

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

I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. And I remember when you... you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said... "Who knows The Valley Song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I... I watched you going home every day...

Suzanne Collins
Song, Teacher, Home
"The Hunger Games". m.imdb.com. 2012.

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.

The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

Suzanne Collins
Rain, Tired, Home
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says. “Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Two, Mutts
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.446, Scholastic Inc.

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Pay, Able
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

Suzanne Collins
Mother, Home, Said
Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

Suzanne Collins
Children, Father, Home
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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

Suzanne Collins
Stars, Home, Heart
Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.261, Scholastic Inc.

So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouragingly. “I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning…won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because…because…she came here with me.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Winning, Thinking
Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.125, Scholastic Inc.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Waiting, Parent
"Suzanne Collins's War Stories for Kids". Interview with Susan Dominus, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 2011.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS

Suzanne Collins
Taken, Home, Names

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Excellent, Novel

if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Winning, Dies

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

Suzanne Collins
Home, Missing, Remember
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

Suzanne Collins
Girl, Home, Thinking
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.348, 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.

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