Suzanne Collins Quotes About Losing

Quotes about: Losing

• Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

• My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Romantic, Hunger For Love, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.86, 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.

• If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Trying, Losing, Gregor The Overlander

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

• Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cheating, Joy, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

• Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.379, Scholastic Inc.

• Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Games

• There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and I'm on the verge of losing Gale as well. The glue of mutual needs that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Melting Away, Together

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

• Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Simple

• I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Ideas, Forever

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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