Suzanne Collins Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Song, Teacher

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

• Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

  Suzanne Collins

  Music, Bird, Peeta

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.394, Scholastic Inc.

• The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Song, Catching On, Flames

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.981, Scholastic Inc.

• Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My father's laugh. Peeta's father with the cookies. The colour of Finnick's eyes. What Cinna could do with a length of silk. Boggs reprogramming the Holo. Rue poised on her toes, arms slightly extended, like a bird about to take flight. On and on. We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their death count.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Eye, Water

• Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

  Suzanne Collins

  Night, Bird, Singing

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

• Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Doors, Bye

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.149, Scholastic

• See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Mother, Coal Miners

• I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sibling, Eye, Dark

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.

• The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Sky, Wings

• This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Opposites, Bird, Safe

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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