Suzanne Collins Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• 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.

• What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?

  Suzanne Collins

  Waiting Around, Katniss, People

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

• Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Men, Tree

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.130, 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.

• "Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How you acted." "Not all of it," I say, tightly holding onto my flowers. "Then how much? No, forget that. I guess the real question is what's going to be left when we get home?" he says. "I don't know. The closer we get to District Twelve, the more confused I get," I say. He waits, for further explanation, but none's forthcoming. "Well, let me know when you work it out," he says, and the pain in his voice is palpable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Confused, Real

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

• Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.

  Suzanne Collins

  Men, Tree, Waiting

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.130, Scholastic Inc.

• Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again

  Suzanne Collins

  Crazy, Waiting, Live Your Life

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