Suzanne Collins Quotes

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Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

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President Snow, Stronger, Littles

"The Hunger Games". m.imdb.com. 2012.

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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

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Life, Fall, I Hate You

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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Some walks you have to take alone.

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Walks, Mockingjay Book, Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

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Trying, Way, Things Change

Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #5: Gregor and the Code of Claw”, p.411, Scholastic Inc.

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I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

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Catching On, Forever, Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.245, Scholastic Inc.

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But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

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Want, Able, Firsts

Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.180, Scholastic Inc.

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What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

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Love, Spring, Inspiration

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.

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If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up

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People, Helping, Bottom

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There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.

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Might, Wells

Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.686, Scholastic UK

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Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

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Giving, Stories, World

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Destroying things is much easier than making them.

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Inspirational, Hunger Games Book, Easier

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

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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

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Relationship, Trust, Betrayal

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.109, Scholastic Inc.

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I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

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Anime, Pokemon, Birth

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As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

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Katniss, Long, Finding Yourself

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

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It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.

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Children, Messages, Clear

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We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

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Fighting, Justice, Hunger

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.

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I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

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Games, Katniss, Pieces

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

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But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

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Memories, Stupid, Thinking

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.297, Scholastic

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But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

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Hopeful, Pieces, Awful

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

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Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

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Katniss, Giving, Doe

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

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Fighting, Seems, Insurmountable

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I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

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Giving, Tears, Target

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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But what was it Haymitch said when I asked if he had told Peeta the situation? That he had to pretend to be desperately in love? “Don’t have to. He’s already there.

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Said, Situation, Ifs

Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.358, Scholastic Inc.

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The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

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Girl, Fighting, Winning

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

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Life, Eye, Fire

Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.762, Scholastic UK

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